Recall: Recursive Calling
In robertzk/monadicbase: The R Base Package

Description Usage Arguments Note See Also Examples

Recall is used as a placeholder for the name of the function in which it is called. It allows the definition of recursive functions which still work after being renamed, see example below.

1	Recall(...)

...

all the arguments to be passed.

Recall will not work correctly when passed as a function argument, e.g. to the apply family of functions.

do.call and call.

local for another way to write anonymous recursive functions.

## A trivial (but inefficient!) example:
fib <- function(n)
   if(n<=2) { if(n>=0) 1 else 0 } else Recall(n-1) + Recall(n-2)
fibonacci <- fib; rm(fib)
## renaming wouldn't work without Recall
fibonacci(10) # 55