It is not clear to me exactly what you are looking to do, but if you are
trying to check whether an argument has been passed via ..., I have used
this convention before.
fun <- function(arg, ...) {
opts <- list(...)
if('opt' %in% names(opts)) # Do something...
}
Does that help?
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r-help-boun...@r-project.org wrote on 03/29/2011 01:47:41 PM:
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>
> [R] passing arguments via "..."
>
> Cable, Samuel B Civ USAF AFMC AFRL/RVBXI
>
> to:
>
> r-help
>
> 03/29/2011 01:51 PM
>
> Sent by:
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> r-help-boun...@r-project.org
>
> I would like to do something like the following:
>
> Fancyhist<-function(x,...) {
>
> # first, process x into xprocess somehow, then ...
>
> if (is.null(breaks)) { # yes, I know this is wrong
> # define the histogram breaks somehow, then call hist:
> hist(xprocess,breaks=breaks,...)
> } else {
> # use breaks give in calling argument
> hist(xprocess,...)
> }
>
> }
>
> But, those of you who know R better than I do have already spotted that
> "is.null(breaks)" just won't work. Neither does "exists" or "missing".
>
> I can think of ways to do this involving new arguments with new names --
> like "histbreaks" or something -- but that seems inelegant.
>
> Is there a way to do what I am trying to do here?
>
> Thanks.
>
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