Thank you very much Charles! I probably should stop passing the dots to subfunctions and rather doctor the results of as.list(match.call()), e.g.
mc <- as.list(match.call()) mc[[1]] <- stopifnot eval(as.call(mc)) This looks safer. Thanks again, Vadim ________________________________________ From: Charles C. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 2:27 PM To: Vadim Organovich Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] stopifnot message mutation On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Vadim Organovich wrote: > Dear R-users, > > Could someone please explain why the message printed by function stopifnot2, > see below, is different from that of stopifnot itself? Refer to the source page(stopifnot,'print') Then consider this: > foo <- function(...) match.call() > foo2 <- function(...) foo(...) > foo(a+b)[[2]] a + b > foo2(a+b)[[2]] ..1 > HTH, Chuck > > Thank you for your help, > Vadim > > >> stopifnot2 <- function(...) stopifnot(...) >> stopifnot(F) > Error: F is not TRUE >> stopifnot2(F) > Error: ..1 is not TRUE > >> version > _ > platform i386-pc-mingw32 > arch i386 > os mingw32 > system i386, mingw32 > status > major 2 > minor 6.1 > year 2007 > month 11 > day 26 > svn rev 43537 > language R > version.string R version 2.6.1 (2007-11-26) > > Note: This email is for the confidential use of the named addressee(s) only > and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you > are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, > dissemination or copying of this email is strictly prohibited, and to please > notify the sender immediately and destroy this email and any attachments. > Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Jump > Trading, therefore, does not make any guarantees as to the completeness or > accuracy of this email or any attachments. This email is for informational > purposes only and does not constitute a recommendation, offer, request or > solicitation of any kind to buy, sell, subscribe, redeem or perform any type > of transaction of a financial product. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC San Diego http://famprevmed.ucsd.edu/faculty/cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0901 Note: This email is for the confidential use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this email is strictly prohibited, and to please notify the sender immediately and destroy this email and any attachments. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Jump Trading, therefore, does not make any guarantees as to the completeness or accuracy of this email or any attachments. This email is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a recommendation, offer, request or solicitation of any kind to buy, sell, subscribe, redeem or perform any type of transaction of a financial product. ______________________________________________ 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.