See ?get and try: sin <- 1 get("sin", mode = "numeric") get("sin", mode = "function")
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:20 AM, <jlu...@ria.buffalo.edu> wrote: > guRus: > > I have a variable "beta" as an argument to R's beta function. So > essentially I have a case of beta(alpha, beta). What surprises me is that > R doesn't barf on this stupid programming practice. R gets the right > answer. How does R know "beta the variable" from "beta the function"? > > Joseph F. Lucke > Senior Statistician > Research Institute on Addictions > University at Buffalo > SUNY > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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.