Hi,
It's easy, just carry the arguments in '…' forward to where you expect to pass
them along.
mynumbs<-function(x,y,z=5,...){
numbs<-sort(sample(y,z, ...))
for (i in 1:(x-1))
numbs<-rbind(numbs,sort(sample(y,z, ...)))
print(numbs)
}
Cheers,
Ben
On Nov 18, 2013, at 8:52 PM, "Lopez, Dan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi R Experts,
>
> How do you get the ... to work in a user-defined function such as the one I
> have below?
> For example if I want to pass replace=TRUE to the sample function.
>
> # This is a sample function that generates x rows of z numbers out of y.
> Basically a lottery style data set.
>
> mynumbs<-function(x,y,z=5,...){
> #x should be a scalar indicating number of rows
> #y & z are passed to sample function
> #in the future will add option to output as data.frame instead of matrix
>
> numbs<-sort(sample(y,z))
> for (i in 1:(x-1))
> numbs<-rbind(numbs,sort(sample(y,z)))
> print(numbs)
> }
>
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