splat {plyr} | R Documentation |
‘Splat’ arguments to a function.
Description
Wraps a function in do.call, so instead of taking multiple arguments, it takes a single named list which will be interpreted as its arguments.
Usage
splat(flat)
Arguments
flat |
function to splat |
Details
This is useful when you want to pass a function a row of data frame or array, and don't want to manually pull it apart in your function.
Value
a function
Examples
hp_per_cyl <- function(hp, cyl, ...) hp / cyl
splat(hp_per_cyl)(mtcars[1,])
splat(hp_per_cyl)(mtcars)
f <- function(mpg, wt, ...) data.frame(mw = mpg / wt)
ddply(mtcars, .(cyl), splat(f))
[Package plyr version 1.8.9 Index]