See ?rep where it says that the argument must be a vector. Try rep(list(sin), 3)
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Matthew Walker <matthew.walke...@ulaval.ca> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Would somebody please explain (or point me to a reference that explains) the > following error: > > "Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable" > > I was trying to use rep() to replicate a function: > >> example_function <- function() { return(TRUE) } >> rep(example_function, 3) > Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable > > But I just cannot understand this error. I can combine functions using "c" > without any problems: > >> c(example_function, example_function) > [[1]] > function () > { > return(TRUE) > } > > [[2]] > function () > { > return(TRUE) > } > > What am I doing wrong when I use rep()? > > Thanks in advance, > > Matthew Walker > > ______________________________________________ > 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.