Re: [R] Help on a Display function

2011-01-15 Thread Hans W Borchers
William Dunlap tibco.com> writes: > > But it fails on this: > > my_names <- c("Bill", "William") > > display(rev(my_names)) > rev(my_names) = Error in cat(list(...), file, sep, fill, labels, > append) : > argument 3 (type 'list') cannot be handled by 'cat' > This is because you call ev

Re: [R] Help on a Display function

2011-01-14 Thread William Dunlap
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Hans W Borchers > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:55 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Help on a Display function > > > > I wanted

[R] Help on a Display function

2011-01-14 Thread Hans W Borchers
> I wanted to simulate the Matlab DISPLAY function for some time now. After seeing a recent proposal by Gabor Grothendieck I came up with the following solution, display <- function(...) { my_names <- lapply(substitute(placeholderFunction(...))[-1], deparse) for (my in my_names) cat(my, "=",