hi david---can you give just a little more of an example? the function should work with call by order, call by name, and data frame whose columns are the names. /iaw
---- Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@gmail.com) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:25 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2013, at 3:57 PM, ivo welch wrote: > >> dear R experts: >> >> I want to define a function the calculates the black-scholes value. >> it takes 5 named parameters, BS <- function(S,K,dt,rf,sigma) {} . >> let's presume I want to be able to call this not only with my 5 >> numeric vectors BS( sigma=0.3, S=100, K=100, dt=1, rf=0.1 ) and BS( >> 100, 100, 1, 0.1, 0.3), but also with a data frame that contains the >> variables alll in a neat data frame already, BS( data.frame( S=100, >> K=100, dt=1, rf=0.1, sigma=0.3 )). I could of course define BS6 and >> BS1, but it would be nice to wrap this functionality into one function >> that can do both. >> >> I know that BS has to parse an '...' argument, but there could be a >> couple of magical R functions that might make this easier than I would >> do it with my planned clunky version. what's the elegant version? >> > > apply( dfrm, 1, BS) > > -- > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > ______________________________________________ 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.