On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Abraham Mathew <abra...@thisorthat.com> wrote: > > I passed it as an argument to the function because every week I'll need to > add keywords to the lst, and that function will make the process more > automated.
But it doesn't. lst is hard-coded within your function, so passing something, anything, named lst to your function is irrelevant. But back to your original question, you really need to provide the list with a short version that we can run. Diagnosing such a long mass of code without even being able to try it out is very difficult. Sarah > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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.
