R help - Jun 2007 - multiple return

Dear User,
what's the correct way to obtain a multiple return from a function?

for example creating the simple function:

somma <- function (a, b) {
  c <- a+b
  return (a, b, c)
}

when I call it, it runs but returns the following output:
> somma(5, 7)
$a
[1] 5

$b
[1] 7

$c
[1] 12

Warning message:
return multi-argomento sono deprecati in: return(a, b, c) 

i.e. multi-return is deprecated...

thanks a lot
best regards
	Manuele

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one way --


somma <- function (a, b) {
  c <- a+b
  return (list(a=a, b=a, c=c))
}

Mahbub.

On 6/22/07, Manuele Pesenti <amicogodzilla@bruttocarattere.org>
wrote:
>
> Dear User,
> what's the correct way to obtain a multiple return from a function?
>
> for example creating the simple function:
>
> somma <- function (a, b) {
>   c <- a+b
>   return (a, b, c)
> }
>
> when I call it, it runs but returns the following output:
>
> > somma(5, 7)
> $a
> [1] 5
>
> $b
> [1] 7
>
> $c
> [1] 12
>
> Warning message:
> return multi-argomento sono deprecati in: return(a, b, c)
>
> i.e. multi-return is deprecated...
>
> thanks a lot
> best regards
>         Manuele
>
> --
> Manuele Pesenti
>         manuele@inventati.org
>         amicogodzilla@jabber.linux.it
>         http://mpesenti.polito.it
>
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University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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Put the return values in a vector or list

somma <- function (a, b) {
   c <- a+b
   return (c(a = a, b = b, c = c))
}

somma(5,7)
 a  b  c 
 5  7 12 


somma <- function (a, b) {
   c <- a+b
   return (list(a = a, b = b, c = c))
}

somma(5,7)
$a
[1] 5

$b
[1] 7

$c
[1] 12

Cheers,

Thierry
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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: r-help-bounces op stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces op stat.math.ethz.ch] Namens Manuele Pesenti
> Verzonden: vrijdag 22 juni 2007 12:38
> Aan: r-help op stat.math.ethz.ch
> Onderwerp: [R] multiple return
> 
> Dear User,
> what's the correct way to obtain a multiple return from a function?
> 
> for example creating the simple function:
> 
> somma <- function (a, b) {
>   c <- a+b
>   return (a, b, c)
> }
> 
> when I call it, it runs but returns the following output:
> 
> > somma(5, 7)
> $a
> [1] 5
> 
> $b
> [1] 7
> 
> $c
> [1] 12
> 
> Warning message:
> return multi-argomento sono deprecati in: return(a, b, c) 
> 
> i.e. multi-return is deprecated...
> 
> thanks a lot
> best regards
> 	Manuele
> 
> --
> Manuele Pesenti
> 	manuele op inventati.org
> 	amicogodzilla op jabber.linux.it
> 	http://mpesenti.polito.it
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help op stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
>