Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Note that X and FUN are also arguments to sapply > >> args(sapply) > function (X, FUN, ..., simplify = TRUE, USE.NAMES = TRUE) > NULL > > so the sapply construct in your post has the effect of applying c > to tmp, pats and strapply so the output you observe is correct. > The sapply command never even calls strapply.
Ah, I see. I take it this means it is not possible to use sapply with strapply directly. (I'd have to write a function that wraps strapply with different argument names, and then sapply that.) Anyway, I managed to do what I wanted by collapsing my multiple regexes into one, so it's good for now. Thanks for the help. -- --OKB (not okblacke) Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown ______________________________________________ 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.