That's very nice, Hadley. Simple and clean. Never would have thought of it
myself.
As usual, however, in the course of my churnings, I have a further
complication to add. But first ...
**TO ALL**: Feel free to ignore the following, as I'm just fooling around
here and don't want to waste your time
I'd propose an alternative that I think is superior: rely on the semantics
of ... to do the work for you:
f1 <- function(...){
one <- list(...)[['a']]
two <- ...elt(match('a', ...names()))
c(one, two, three(...))
}
three <- function(a, ...) {
a
}
f1(a = 1, b = 2, c = 3)
#> [1] 1 1 1
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> Sorkin, John
> on Tue, 7 Jan 2025 22:03:02 + writes:
> Colleagues,
> My interest is not in writing ad hoc functions (which I might use once to
analyze my data), but rather what I will call a system function that might be
part of a package. The lm function is a paradigm
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