[R] variable capture in apply

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kjetil Halvorsen <khal at alumni.uv.es> writes:

> The following example is from `S Poetry', page 78-79.  It
> seems to indicate some error in lapply, sapply, 
> or both? [It does, and below the solution is given also.]
> 
....
> > sapply( seq(along=jjalist), function(i,x,y) 
> +    {x[[i]] %*% y[[i]]}, x=jjalist, y=jjblist)
....
[short summary: sapply() calls lapply() which has its first argument
 called "x" matching the "x=jjalist" via "..." and things go crazy]

Yup. The *apply() functions should be consistent in the argument
naming for this reason. Of course, that doesn't guard against people
using X as an argument name in their functions, but it'll be a bit
more obvious what goes wrong. Fixed for 0.63.

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