Hi, Try: plotx <- function(x,y, ...){ labels <- list(xlab="x",ylab="y") args <- modifyList(labels,list(x=x,...)) do.call("plot",args) }
plotx(1:100,1:100,xlab="I Don't Work!") A.K. On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 11:14 AM, Dustin Fife <fife.dus...@gmail.com> wrote: Suppose I'm creating a function that sets default ylab and xlab behaviors: plotx = function(x, y, ...){ plot(x,y, ylab="", xlab="",...) } The problem is, on occasion, I actually want to override the defaults in my function. I would like to do the following: plotx(1:100, 1:100, xlab="I Don't Work!") But I get the "multiple actual arguments" error message (which makes sense). Does anyone know how to set a default (like plotx does), but allow it to change if the user specifies the same argument via ...? I tried doing something like this: plotx = function(x, y, ...){ args = list(...) yl = ifelse(!is.null(args$ylab), args$ylab, "") xl = ifelse(!is.null(args$xlab), args$xlab, "") plot(x,y, ylab=yl, xlab=xl,...) } but got the same error. I then started thinking that maybe I can remove the ylab and xlab arguments from ..., but I don't know how I'd do that. Any ideas of how to remove it? Or, is there a better way of doing this? Thanks! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.