[R] lapply with argument "X"

Barry Rowlingson B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Wed Oct 6 18:54:02 CEST 2004


Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> 
> Internal variable capture. I think this is a bug.
> 
> Also, try  lapply("FUN",get)
> 
> 

If 'exists' was vectorised in its first argument then there wouldn't be 
a need to use lapply with it, would there? I'm guessing the original 
problem stems from something like:

  got = exists(c("X","Y","Z"))

  not working and the user thinking lapply would do nicely...

  How to vectorise it without introducing another existing variable is 
another problem...

Baz




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