Hi Severin,
I understand that the helper_function is not defined in the main function.
The anonymous function inside the lapply call however is, which means it can
use the (list of) variables in the main function.
You still need to pass the list of arguments to the helper_function, but not
also
Hi Freek,
the helper_function() is not defined in the main function, but only
called there. I decided to pass a named list of parameters, from which
each helper function grabs those it needs. I also thought about defining
the function in the main function, but decided that this neither helps
Hi Severin,
I'm not sure what the best practice is, but since your anonymous function is
defined inside your main function, you don't need to supply it with all those
arguments.
This should also work, because R has lexical scoping:
main_function <- function(alot, of, paramters) {
var01 <- foo
Dear community,
I am writing my first package with the aim to publish it on
Bioconductor. To structure the code and make it (human) readable I have
defined some helper functions, that will not be exported.
The main function (which will be user available) makes some data
structuring, defines
