Is this the sort of thing you are looking for?
> f <- function(testName, dataset, ...) {
+ testFunc <- match.fun(paste(testName, "_test", sep=""))
+ testFunc(dataset, ...)
+ }
> m_test <- function(x) "the m test"
> p_test <- function(x) "the p test"
> f("m", 17)
[1] "the m test"
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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>
> Thaks for your quick reply Bert, although I doubt it works.
>
> The reason is that the names of the objects of the dataset,
> all end with the
> sufix '_test' and therefore I need to attach/paste/glue this
> suffix to the
> 'arg2' of the function. Any other idea?
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