[R] Pasting function arguments and strings

[Peter Langfelder]

>From what I read, you want something like this:


myfunction<-function(dataset,arg1,arg2)

{
func = match.fun(arg2)
argument = dataset[, match(paste(arg1,"_test", sep=""), names(dataset))]
result=func(argument)

return(result)

}

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Manta <mantino84 at libero.it> wrote:
>
> Thaks for your quick reply Bert, although I doubt it works.
>
> The reason is that the names of the objects of the dataset, all end with the
> sufix '_test' and therefore I need to attach/paste/glue this suffix to the
> 'arg2' of the function. Any other idea?
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