You can put print statements into the arguments given to a function to more directly see when they get evaluated. E.g.,
> z <- f0(c={ cat("Evaluating 'c' argument\n"); "p"}, nm="norm", mean={ > cat("Evaluating 'mean' argument\n"); 1.2 }) Evaluating 'c' argument > z(1:5) Evaluating 'mean' argument [1] 0.4207403 0.7881446 0.9640697 0.9974449 0.9999277 > > z <- f1(c={ cat("Evaluating 'c' argument\n"); "p"}, nm="norm", mean={ > cat("Evaluating 'mean' argument\n"); 1.2 }) Evaluating 'c' argument Evaluating 'mean' argument > z(1:5) [1] 0.4207403 0.7881446 0.9640697 0.9974449 0.9999277 > pnorm(1:5, mean=1.2) [1] 0.4207403 0.7881446 0.9640697 0.9974449 0.9999277 where f0 does not call force(list(...)) and f1 does. Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On > Behalf > Of Julio Sergio > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 2:11 PM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] Trying to build up functions with its names by means of > lapply > > William Dunlap <wdunlap <at> tibco.com> writes: > > > f1 <- function (c, nm = "gamma", ...) > > { > > probFunc <- getFunction(paste0(c, nm)) > > force(list(...)) > > function(x) probFunc(x, ...) > > } > > > > Bill Dunlap > > Spotfire, TIBCO Software > > wdunlap tibco.com > > > > Thanks a lot William!, this really enhances my knowledge of the language. > > -Sergio. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.