I must admit I'm a little ashamed to have been using R for so long,
and still lack a sound understanding of deferred calls, eval, deparse,
substitute, and friends.
I'm attempting to make a deferred call to a function which has default
arguments in the following way:
call.foo <- function(f) {
x <- f()
}
x <- 1:10
f <- function(x=x) { x^2 }
call.foo(f)
However, I'm getting the error:
Error in x^2 : 'x' is missing
Is there a common R idiom for calling 'formals' on the function, and
then grabbing the named default arguments from the enclosing frame?
I naively thought that since function 'f' was defined w/ a default
argument of 'x' and x is defined in the same envir as the function
itself, that the call would succeed.
-Whit
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