[R] function

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed May 12 21:16:11 CEST 2010


On May 12, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Daniel Malter wrote:

>
> Fair enough, my mistake. However, I am quite fascinated how that  
> focuses
> everybody else on picking on the intitial answer and diverts  
> everybody away
> from anwering the actual question. All the more it points to the  
> second
> paragraph of my reply, namely that all modular components of the  
> function
> should be checked.
>
> For example:
>
> lapply(data,function(){quantile(x,probs=0.25)})
>
> #does not work, but
>
> lapply(data,function(x){quantile(x,probs=0.25)})
>
> #works
>
> So perhaps missing out on the x in the definition of the function is  
> the
> only problem. But for that, we would need the error message.

Or as the message says (over and over): "... reproducible code."

Maybe everyone that posts in html could be returned a mail-server  
generated reply that has that text highlighted in blinking color.

>
> Daniel
>
> -- 
--

David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT



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