BiocGenerics (version 0.18.0)

do.call: Execute a function call

Description

do.call constructs and executes a function call from a name or a function and a list of arguments to be passed to it.

NOTE: This man page is for the do.call S4 generic function defined in the BiocGenerics package. See ?base::do.call for the default method (defined in the base package). Bioconductor packages can define specific methods for objects not supported by the default method.

Usage

do.call(what, args, quote=FALSE, envir=parent.frame())

Arguments

what

The default method expects either a function or a non-empty character string naming the function to be called. See ?base::do.call for the details.

Specific methods can support other objects. Please refer to the documentation of a particular method for the details.

args

The default method expects a list of arguments to the function call (the names attribute of args gives the argument names). See ?base::do.call for the details. Specific methods can support other objects. Please refer to the documentation of a particular method for the details.

quote, envir

See ?base::do.call for a description of these arguments.

Value

The result of the (evaluated) function call.Specific methods defined in Bioconductor packages should behave as consistently as possible with the default method.

See Also

• base::do.call for the default do.call method.

• showMethods for displaying a summary of the methods defined for a given generic function.

• selectMethod for getting the definition of a specific method.

• BiocGenerics for a summary of all the generics defined in the BiocGenerics package.

Examples

do.call  # note the dispatch on the 'what' and 'args' args only
showMethods("do.call")
selectMethod("do.call", c("ANY", "ANY"))  # the default method