[R] How to use ifelse without invoking warnings

[Leonard Mada]

Dear Ravi,


I have uploaded on GitHub a version which handles also constant values 
instead of functions.


Regarding named arguments: this is actually handled automatically as well:

eval.by.formula((x > 5 & x %% 2) ~ (x <= 5) ~ ., FUN, y=2, x)
# [1]  1  4  9 16 25  6 14  8 18 10
eval.by.formula((x > 5 & x %% 2) ~ (x <= 5) ~ ., FUN, x=2, x)
# [1]  4  4  4  4  4  2 14  2 18  2
eval.by.formula((x > 5 & x %% 2) ~ (x <= 5) ~ ., list(FUN[[1]], 0, 1), 
y=2, x)
  # [1]  0  0  0  0  0  1 14  1 18  1


But it still needs proper testing and maybe optimization: it is possible 
to run sapply on the filtered sequence (but I did not want to break 
anything now).


Sincerely,


Leonard



On 10/9/2021 9:26 PM, Leonard Mada wrote:
> Dear Ravi,
>
>
> I wrote a small replacement for ifelse() which avoids such unnecessary 
> evaluations (it bothered me a few times as well - so I decided to try 
> a small replacement).
>
>
> ### Example:
> x = 1:10
> FUN = list();
> FUN[[1]] = function(x, y) x*y;
> FUN[[2]] = function(x, y) x^2;
> FUN[[3]] = function(x, y) x;
> # lets run multiple conditions
> # eval.by.formula(conditions, FUN.list, ... (arguments for FUN) );
> eval.by.formula((x > 5 & x %% 2) ~ (x <= 5) ~ ., FUN, x, x-1)
> # Example 2
> eval.by.formula((x > 5 & x %% 2) ~ (x <= 5) ~ ., FUN, 2, x)
>
>
> ### Disclaimer:
> - NOT properly tested;
>
>
> The code for the function is below. Maybe someone can experiment with 
> the code and improve it further. There are a few issues / open 
> questions, like:
>
> 1.) Best Name: eval.by.formula, ifelse.formula, ...?
>
> 2.) Named arguments: not yet;
>
> 3.) Fixed values inside FUN.list
>
> 4.) Format of expression for conditions:
>
> expression(cond1, cond2, cond3) vs cond1 ~ cond2 ~ cond3 ???
>
> 5.) Code efficiency
>
> - some tests on large data sets & optimizations are warranted;
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Leonard
>
> =======
>
> The latest code is on Github:
>
> https://github.com/discoleo/R/blob/master/Stat/Tools.Formulas.R
>
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