[R] Evaluate a function for various value of parameters

[Stephane DRAY]

Hello list,

I have a problem ... and do not know how to solve it.
I would like create a function that estimate the quality of the fit of 
different functions with different values of parameters.
This problem is related to the following one:
I would like to create a function "evaluatemyfunction" which evaluate a 
function f for different values of parameters. For instance, if
f=function(a,b) a*b
evaluatemyfunction(f,1:10,5) would return:
5
10
15...

I would like that f could have a variable number of arguments. I have begin 
to write a function:

evaluatemyfunction=function(f,...){
b=match.call(expand.dot=F)$...
myg=expand.grid(lapply(b,eval)) #contains all combinations of parameters
for (i in 1:nrow(myg)){

argsasname=paste(paste(names(myg),myg[1,],sep="="),collapse=",")
# ??????
}

}

I have try to construct arguments of the function as character, then parse 
and pass it to f but parse doesn't work:

 > parse(text=paste(paste(names(myg),myg[i,],sep="="),collapse=","))
Error in parse(file, n, text, prompt) : parse error

Any ideas ??

Thanks in advance,

sincerely
Stéphane DRAY
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