[R] All possible combinations of functions within a function

[Michael L. Treglia]

Thank you Baptiste and Jim- I look forward to trying these ideas out 
when I have a chance.
Mike

baptiste auguie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >From what I understand of your code, you might find the following
> construct useful,
>
> funs <- c("mean", "sum", "sd", "diff")
> x <- 1:10
> lapply(funs, do.call, args=list(x))
>
> and then working with lists rather than naming every object
> individually. You might find mapply useful too when you have to pass
> several parameters.
>
> HTH,
>
> baptiste
>
> 2009/11/10 bikemike42 <mlt35 at tamu.edu>:
>   
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I wrote a function for cluster analysis to compute cophenetic correlations
>> between dissimilarity matrices (using the VEGAN library) and cluster
>> analyses of every possible clustering algorithm (SEE ATTACHED)
>> http://old.nabble.com/file/p26288610/cor.coef.R cor.coef.R .  As it is now,
>> it is extremely long, and for the future I was hoping to find a more
>> efficient way of doing this sort of thing.
>>
>> To give you an outline of the function, first I create the  dissimiarity
>> matrices using all possible methods in the VEGAN command "vegdist", then
>> create the clusters using all possible algorithms in "hclust" and the
>> dissimilarity matrices I crated, then create a table, and in one column,
>> list all combinations, and in the other, compute and put the cophenetic
>> correlation.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated!  I'm pretty new to writing my own functions
>> but I see great time-saving potential.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mike
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