Can I just mention the quick-and-dirty way that will get the job done? Not as elegant as use the special features of the language *meant* for this kind of job, but suitable for a bear of very little brain.
1. Write a function that constructs the code you want as text, written to a file. 2. source() the file.' On Sat, 25 Oct 2025 at 15:23, Rolf Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I want to build a function (say "buildFn") to *return* a function of the > form > > foo(x,y,a1, ... an, b1, ..., bn) > > where the arguments ai and bi are given in the form of a list created > in R. E.g. I'd like to be able to say > > argnms <- c(paste0("a",1:3),paste0("b",1:3")) > foo <- buildFn(argnms) > > with the resulting "foo" having arguments x, y, a1, a2, a3, b1, b2, b3. > > I thought I might be able to do this using "formals<-" but I cannot get > this to work. i could provide more detail of what I've tried, but it's > probably not worth it. > > Can anyone steer me in the right direction? Thanks. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Stats. Dep't. (secretaries) phone: > +64-9-373-7599 ext. 89622 > Home phone: +64-9-480-4619 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
