
I might very well be wrong, but something tells me Sean really wants:
sum(1:5)

or (more close to the kind of unlimited number of arguments):
sum(c(1,2,3,4,5,17))

But then again, I might be mistaken.
Best wishes,
Adrian

On Monday 09 March 2009, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Try this:
>
> sum.test <- function(...) sum(c(...))
>
> More commonly one uses the list(...) construct.
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sean Zhang <seanecon@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear R-helpers:
> > I am an R newbie and have a question related to writing functions that
> > accept unlimited number of input arguments.
> > (I tried to peek into functions such as paste and cbind, but failed, I
> > cannot see their codes..)
> >
> > Can someone kindly show me through a summation example?
> > Say, we have input scalar,  1 2 3 4 5
> > then the ideal function, say sum.test, can do
> > (1+2+3+4+5)==sum.test(1,2,3,4,5)
> >
> > Also sum.test can work as the number of input scalar changes.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance!



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