plotrix (version 3.8-2)

clean.args: Remove inappropriate arguments from an argument list

Description

Takes a list of arguments and eliminates those that are not appropriate for passing to a particular function (and hence would produce an error if passed).

Usage

clean.args(argstr,fn,exclude.repeats=FALSE,exclude.other=NULL,dots.ok=TRUE)
 remove.args(argstr,fn)

Value

clean.args returns a list which is a copy of argstr with arguments inappropriate for fn removed; remove.args

removes the arguments for fn from the list.

Arguments

argstr

a named list of arguments, e.g. from \dots

fn

a function

exclude.repeats

(logical) remove repeated arguments?

exclude.other

a character vector of names of additional arguments to remove

dots.ok

should "..." be allowed in the argument list?

Author

Ben Bolker

Examples

 tststr <- list(n=2,mean=0,sd=1,foo=4,bar=6) 
 clean.args(tststr,rnorm)
 try(do.call("rnorm",tststr))
 do.call("rnorm",clean.args(tststr,rnorm))
 remove.args(tststr,rnorm)
 ## add example of combining arg. lists?