[R] help with my sloppy syntax

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:

> Thank you Professor Ripley:
>
>> From your response it is clear that I left out something important, for
> which I apologize.
>
> Part of the et cetera is another list.  Your method, which would work
> otherwise, also converts the other list to its members.  The program being
> called has an argument list like (a, b, c, d, e, w, x, y, z) where z is a
> list but the other elements are single variables (not lists or vectors).

Does using list(z) inside c() work?  If I understand you correctly it 
will.

> I have the values of (a, b, c, d, e) returned from the R function "optim" as
> results$par.  I wish to call my function with those values, some others, and
> finally with that other list, z.
>
> Is there a way to do this without defining another variable "var" and
> listing its elements without the undesirable unlisting that terminal
> variable z?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Charles Annis, P.E.
>
> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
> phone: 561-352-9699
> eFax:  614-455-3265
> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:20 AM
> To: Charles Annis, P.E.
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org; annisc at asme.org
> Subject: Re: [R] help with my sloppy syntax
>
> Try c(as.list(par), a.hat.decision, .... et cetera ...)
>
> We are guessing what any of these are, of course.
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
>
>> R-ians:
>>
>> After some effort I coerced my code to do what I want but my syntax is a
>> kludge.  Suggestions on more elegant syntax?
>>
>> 	par <- NIM.results$par
>> 	do.call("Draw.NIM.POD.curve", list(par[1], par[2], par[3], par[4],
>> 	par[5], a.hat.decision, .... et cetera ...
>>
>> It seems that I should be able to avoid defining the variable "par" and
> then
>> specifying each of its elements, but all my attempts resulted in a list
>> whose first element is a list, rather than the elements of the list.  And
> my
>> attempts at unlist were unsuccessful.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Charles Annis, P.E.
>>
>> Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
>> phone: 561-352-9699
>> eFax:  614-455-3265
>> http://www.StatisticalEngineering.com
>
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
> 1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
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>
>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595