[R] passing arguments to simple plotting program.

[Gerard Smits]

Hi Ulrik,

If I can trouble you with one more question.

Now trying to send a string to the main= .  I was able to pass the data name in data=in_data, but same logic is not working in passion the main string.


plot_f1 <-function(indata,n1,n2,n3,fig_descrip) {
  par(oma=c(2,2,2,2))
  boxplot(formula = d_comp ~ rx_grp,
          data="indata”,                    # <- worked fine here.
          main="fig_descrip",
          ylim=c(-10,5),
          names=c(paste0("Placebo(N=", n1,  ")"),
	          paste0("Low Dose(N=", n2, ")"),
		  paste0("High Dose(N=", n3,")")),
          ylab='Change from Baseline')
  abline(h=c(0), col="lightgray")
}

plot_f1(indata=v5, n1=114, n2=119, n3=116, fig_descrip=Figure 2a\nChange in Composite Score at Visit 5 (Day 31)\nPer Protocol Population)

Error Message: Error: unexpected numeric constant in "plot_f1(indata=v5, n1=114, n2=119, n3=116, fig_descrip=Figure 2”

Even this call gives the same error:  plot_f1(indata=v5, n1=114, n2=119, n3=116, fig_descrip=Figure)


Thanks, 

Gerard






> On May 8, 2017, at 11:40 PM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> HI Gerard,
> 
> You get the literals because the variables are not implicitly expanded - 'Placebo(N=n1)  ' is just a string indicating the N = n1. 
> 
> What you want is to use paste() or paste0(): 
> c(paste0("Placebo(N=", n1, ")"), paste0("Low Dose (N=", n2, ")"), paste0("High Dose (N=", n3, ")"))
> should do it.
> 
> I was taught a long ago that attach() should be avoided to avoid name conflicts. Also, it makes it difficult to figure out which data is actually being used.
> 
> HTH
> Ulrik
> 
> On Tue, 9 May 2017 at 06:44 Gerard Smits <smits.gerard.j at gmail.com <mailto:smits.gerard.j at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I thought I’d try to get a function working instead of block copying code and editing. My backorund is more SAS, so using a SAS Macro would be easy, but not so lucky with R functions.
> 
> 
> R being used on Mac Sierra 10.12.4:
> 
> R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21) -- "Bug in Your Hair"
> Copyright (C) 2016 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
> 
> 
> resp<-read.csv("//users//gerard//gs//r_work//xyz.csv", header = TRUE)
> 
> v5  <-subset(resp, subset=visit==5 & pp==1)
> 
> plot_f1 <-function(n1,n2,n3) {
>   attach(v8)
>   par(oma=c(2,2,2,2))
>   boxplot(formula = d_comp ~ rx_grp,
>           main="Figure 2\nChange in Composite Score at Visit 5 (Day 31)\nPer Protocol Population",
>           ylim=c(-10,5),
>           names=c('Placebo(N=n1)  ',
>                   'Low Dose(N=n2) ',
>                   'High Dose(N=n3)'),
>           ylab='Change from Baseline')
>   abline(h=c(0), col="lightgray")
> }
> 
> plot_f1(n1=114, n2=119, n3=116)
> 
> The above is a simplified example where I am trying to pass 3 arguments, n1-n3, to be shown in the x-axis tables,  Instead of the numbers, I get the literal n1, n2, n3.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gerard
> 
> 
> 
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