Dear R users,
can someone help with these short puzzles?
1) Is there a function like outer() that evaluates a three-argument function
on a threedimensional grid - or else how to define such a function, say,
outer.3()? E.g., calculate (x/y)^z on (x,y,z) element of {1,2,3}x{3,4}x{4,5} and
return the results in a 3-dimensional array. I would naively use outer() on
two of the arguments within a for() loop for the third argument and somehow
glue the array together. Is there a better way? What about outer.4(), or even
outer.n(), generalizing outer() to functions with an arbitrary number of
arguments?
2)
Define a function dimnames.outer() such that dimnames.outer(x, y, "*")
returns, for x <- 1:2, y <- 2:3, the following matrix:
y
x 2 3
1 2 3
2 4 6
(Or does such such a function already exist?)
3)
How to combine puzzle 1 and puzzle 2? A function dimnames.outer.n() would be
a nice little tool.
4)
How can I access, within a function, the name of a variable that I have
passed to the function? E.g., letting a <- 2, and subsequently calling function
f(a) as defined below,
f <- function (x) {
# How can I get "a" out of x?
}
5)
Finally: Letting x <- 2, how can I transform "x+y" into "2+y" (as some
suitable object), or generally "func(x,y)" into "func(2,y)"?
Many thanks,
Marc
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