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

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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/

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