[R] Evaluating a function with another function

[Guenther, Cameron]

Hello all,
I hope someone can help me with this.

I have function that calculates two values based on input data.  A
simple example follows:

test<-function(x,s,rangit=seq(0,10,1))
{
rangit<-rangit
y<-vector()
p<-vector()
for(i in 0:length(rangit)){
y[i]<-x+s[1]+rangit[i]
p[i]<-x+s[2]+rangit[i]
}
return(data.frame(rangit,y,p))
}

And returns the following:

   rangit  y  p
1       0  2  3
2       1  3  4
3       2  4  5
4       3  5  6
5       4  6  7
6       5  7  8
7       6  8  9
8       7  9 10
9       8 10 11
10      9 11 12
11     10 12 13

Which is what I want.  The part I am having trouble with is that I want
to write another function that will evaluate the previous function at
multiple levels of x, where the levels of x may not always be the same
length

I have tried several options but so far have not been able to figure it
out.

I tried:

testexp<-function(x,s,rangit){
	out<-data.frame()
	for (j in 1:length(x)){
		out[j]<-test(x[j],s)
	}
	return(out)
}
Q2<-testexp(x=c(1:4),s=c(1,2))

But that returns a warning with no values.  I have also tried various
other methods with no success.

Basically what I want the output to look like is

Out[1]	Out[2]	Out[3]	Out[4]
Rangit y p	rangit y p	rangit y p	rangit y p
0      2 3  0      3 4  0      4 5  0      5 6
1      3 4  1      4 5  1      5 6  1      6 7  
2      4 5  2      5 6  2      6 7  2      7 8
3      . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . . 
4      . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . .
5      . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . .
6      . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . .
7      . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . .
8      . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . .
9      . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . .
10     . .  .      . .  .      . .  .      . .

Thanks for any help you can offer.


Cameron Guenther, Ph.D. 
Associate Research Scientist
FWC/FWRI, Marine Fisheries Research
100 8th Avenue S.E.
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
(727)896-8626 Ext. 4305
cameron.guenther at myfwc.com