I don't know about better or more elegant - but see inserts below...
Cheers.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:22:56 +1000 "Luke Hartigan" <luke.harti...@bigpond.com>
wrote
> Dear all,
>
> I have an R function which returns a list of variables; however, within the
> body of the function I would like to incorporate a branch based on a user
> selected option that will mean there will be one different variable to
> return based on the option value.
>
> I was thinking of doing something like this (only an example):
>
> foo <- function(x, y, option = TRUE)
> {
> .
rtn <- list(x = x, y = y)
> If (option == TRUE) {
> # z = z
rtn$z <- z
return(rtn)
> } else {
> # w = w
rtn$w <- w
return(rtn)
> }
> # return(list(x = x, y = y, z = ifelse(option == TRUE, z, NA), w =
> # ifelse(option != TRUE, w, NA))
>
> }
>
> However, I was wondering if anyone else had a better idea/method which might
> be more elegant?
>
> Many thanks,
> Luke
>
>
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