[R] Re: variable argument lists

[Thomas Lumley]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Brad Buchsbaum wrote:

>
> Suppose one does not know in advance the number of arguments to the order
> function and those arguments are stored in a list.
>
> e.g. x <-  list(a,b,c)
>
>
> How would one go about ordering the list of vectors contained in x
> (with b, c, etc. representing "tie-breaking" vectors for the order
> function).

do.call("order",x)

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle

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