Tony Plate wrote:
here's my two cents: - require names on parameters, rather than order- construct calls and use eval() rather than do.call() (then you can manipulate list(...) without the ugh factor of do.call() -- though is do.call() any different to eval() in R? -- I know in S-PLUS that the use of do.call() can completely blow out memory usage) - to avoid manually duplicating arg lists, use constructs like names(formals(optim)) and pmatch to find args that below to the optimizer function vs the objective function-- Tony Platethanks Ben Bolker
The ugh factor referred to any explicit call or argument list manipulation (it would be nicer to just pass ...) -- but your advice makes sense, especially the naming stuff. Brian Ripley wrote:> Using wrappers is a better idea: you can see the idea in several places in the base graphics code.
Have you got a favorite example?
cheers
Ben
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