On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Abraham Mathew <abra...@thisorthat.com> wrote: > > lst is a list within the function.
Then why is it passed as an argument to the function? You can have a function with no arguments, but in this case why, since it would do exactly the same thing every time? Arguments are for passing information to a function that varies each time the function is run. Sarah > Good point about the working directory. > > Thanks > Abraham > > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can you boil that down into a short reproducible example? >> >> For instance, when you run your function at the end >> > newdf <- myfunc(lst) >> >> I can't run it myself because I don't know what lst is. Although it seems not >> to matter - what are you passing as an argument to the function, since >> it seems to >> be completely overwritten. >> >> Also, calling setwd() within a function seems like a bad idea, because >> it guarantees that nobody but you can ever use it. And why would you, >> rather than passing the working directory as an argument if it's >> crucial? >> >> Sarah >> >> ______________________________________________ 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.
