On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Ajay Askoolum <aa2e...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > The "R Language Definition" at > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-lang.html states in the following > section > > 4.3.2 Argument matching > This subsection applies to closures but not to primitive functions. > > What are 'closures'?
You might find the discussion here helpful: https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/First-class-functions Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.