That makes sense. Thanks!
Feng
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 09:09 -0500, Mark Leeds wrote:
> Hi: If you want testFun to know about b, then you would have to do
> b<-list(...)$b inside
> TestFun itself. But the dot dot dot argument is not really for that
> purpose.
>
> The use of dotdotdot is for the case where a function INSIDE testFun
> has a formal argument named say b. Then you can pass the ... at the
> top level and the function inside will receive the ... but
> automatically slurp the b out of the dot dot dot and know about it.
> Below is an example of the use I'm talking about. It was created by a
> mentoR when I was trying to understand the dotdotdot concept.
> hope it helps you.
>
> #======================================================================
>
> Note that f does not directly know about x and g does. That is g
> knows about x even though f does
> not know and g got it from f.
>
> g <- function(x, ...) { cat("g: exists('x') = ", exists("x"), "\n");
> list(...) }
> f <- function(...) { cat("f: exists('x') = ", exists("x"), "\n");
> g(...) }
> f(x = 3, y = 4)
> f: exists('x') = FALSE
> g: exists('x') = TRUE
> $y
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Feng Li <m...@feng.li> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Why does not the three-dot accept arguments from the parent
> environment?
> I am just confused with this error, can someone give me a
> hint?
>
> > rm(list=ls())
> > testFun <- function(a, ...)
> + {
> + if(a){
> + print(a)
> + }else
> + {
> + print(b)
> + }
> + }
> >
> > myTask <- function(a)
> + {
> + b <- 3
> + testFun(a, b = b)
> + }
> > myTask(FALSE)
> Error in print(b) : object 'b' not found
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Feng
>
> --
> Feng Li
> Department of Statistics
> Stockholm University
> SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
> http://feng.li/
>
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