Yes, although this becomes tedious if (e.g.) you have a function that
calls two different functions, each of which has many arguments (e.g.
plot() and barplot(); then you have to set up a whole lot of arguments
that default to NULL and, more annoyingly, you have to document them all
in any .Rd file you create -- rather than just having a ... argument which
you can say should contain arguments for either of the subfunctions (as
long as the arguments don't overlap, of course)
Ben
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Simon Fear wrote:
> For most purposes a more useful technique is to write the
> function with a default NULL argument
>
> myfunc <- function(x, ylim=NULL)
>
> so that it can be called as myfunc(x) or myfunc(x,y). Inside
> the function you test for !is.null(ylim) and take appropriate
> action.
>
> Alternatively, and maybe more commonly, you give ylim a
> sensible default so the caller has to be explicit about
> setting ylim to NULL if required.
>
> As it happens, in your specific case you can write as you did except
> for the pseudo-line(hasArg(ylim)), because all arguments will get
> passed to plot, which will itself recognise and test for
> an argument called ylim, within its own "...".
>
> HTH
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: huan.huang at bnpparibas.com [mailto:huan.huang at bnpparibas.com]
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> > Subject: [R] Retrieve ... argument values
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> > Dear R users,
> >
> > I want to retrieve "..." argument values within a function. Here is a
> > small
> > exmaple:
> >
> > myfunc <- function(x, ...)
> > {
> > if (hasArg(ylim)) a <- ylim
> > plot(x, ...)
> > }
> >
> > x <- rnorm(100)
> > myfunc(x, ylim=c(-0.5, 0.5))
> > Error in myfunc(x, ylim = c(-0.5, 0.5)) : Object "ylim" not found
> > >
> >
> > I need to retrieve values of "ylim" (if it is defined when function is
> > called) for later use in the function. Can anybody give me some hint?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Huan
> >
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