On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Peter Meilstrup
<peter.meilst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is tangentially related to Hadley's question.
>
> Suppose I'm building a function programmatically; I have assembled an
> expression for the body and I know the names of the arguments it wants
> to take.
>
> Suppose I have some convenience function such that writing
> make_function(alist(a=, b=), quote(a+b), environment())
> is equivalent to writing
> function(a,b) a+b
>
> So how do I make the list that goes in the first argument? Suppose I
> start with a character vector of argument names. What I need is a list
> with names and quoted values, but the values are "empty".
>
> Say I have argnames <- c("a", "b", "c").
> >From that I want to construct the equivalent of alist(a=, b=, c=).
Here's one approach:
args <- alist()
for (n in argnames) {
args[[n]] <- bquote()
}
You have to be really careful dealing with the missing symbol, because
if R attempts to evaluate it, you get the missing argument error.
Hadley
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http://had.co.nz/
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