doCall: Executes a function call with option to ignore unused...

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Executes a function call with option to ignore unused arguments

Description

Executes a function call with option to ignore unused arguments.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
doCall(.fcn, ..., args=NULL, alwaysArgs=NULL, .functions=list(.fcn),
  .ignoreUnusedArgs=TRUE, envir=parent.frame())

Arguments

.fcn	A function or a character string specifying the name of a function to be called.
...	Named arguments to be passed to the function.
args	A list of additional named arguments that will be appended to the above arguments.
alwaysArgs	A list of additional named arguments that will be appended to the above arguments and that will never be ignore.
.functions	A list of function:s or names of functions. This can be used to control which arguments are passed.
.ignoreUnusedArgs	If TRUE, arguments that are not accepted by the function, will not be passed to it. Otherwise, all arguments are passed.
envir	An environment in which to evaluate the call.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

do.call().

Examples

  doCall("plot", x=1:10, y=sin(1:10), col="red", dummyArg=54,
         alwaysArgs=list(xlab="x", ylab="y"),
         .functions=c("plot", "plot.xy"))

R.utils documentation built on Nov. 18, 2023, 1:09 a.m.