Peter Dalgaard wrote: <snip> > Notice also that in > > lapply(1:4,function(i) F(i)) > > it would be pretty weird if lapply would behave differently depending > on the name of formal arguments of the function, i.e. if > > lapply(1:4,function(meep) F(meep)) > > gave a different result. And f() depends on looking for a variable i > outside of the function.
here's one example: d = data.frame(a=1, b=2) lapply(3, function(a) subset(d, select=a)) lapply(3, function(b) subset(d, select=b)) lapply(3, function(c) subset(d, select=c)) vQ ______________________________________________ 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.
