Try this: For optim: eval(formals(optim)$method)
For dist function: eval(body(dist)[[3]][[3]]) On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:56 AM, fisken <torpedofis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I'm having some difficulties formulating this question. > > But what I want, > is to extract the options associated with a parameter for a function. > > e.g. > method = c("Nelder-Mead", "BFGS", "CG", "L-BFGS-B", "SANN") > in the optim function. > > So I would like to have a vector with > c("Nelder-Mead", "BFGS", "CG", "L-BFGS-B", "SANN") > > > Or for instance the 'method' in the dist function can be supplied with > euclidian,maximum,manhatten, canberra,binary,minkowski. > > Is there someway to extract this so I would have a vector with > c("euclidian","maximum","manhatten", "canberra","binary","minkowski"). > > > Thanks > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.