R help - Oct 2007 - error: unused arguments

Hi
 
what does this mean when i get above error? When I call function foo(),
specifying parameters a and b as below
 
a<-5
b<-6
 
> y <- foo(a,b)
> Error in foo(a, b) : unused argument(s) (6)
 
 
Thanks
 
Zava
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What is 'foo'?  It appears that foo does not take 2 arguments:
> foo <- function(x) x
> foo(1,2)
Error in foo(1, 2) : unused argument(s) (2)
>

On 10/18/07, Aydemir, Zava (FID) <Zava.Aydemir at morganstanley.com>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> what does this mean when i get above error? When I call function foo(),
> specifying parameters a and b as below
>
> a<-5
> b<-6
>
> > y <- foo(a,b)
> > Error in foo(a, b) : unused argument(s) (6)
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Zava
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?

Aydemir, Zava (FID) wrote:
> Hi
>  
> what does this mean when i get above error? When I call function foo(),
> specifying parameters a and b as below
>  
> a<-5
> b<-6
>  
> 
>>y <- foo(a,b)
>>Error in foo(a, b) : unused argument(s) (6)
> 
Hi Zava,
As the other Jim noted, it looks like foo() is declared with only one 
argument. Perhaps Ben Bolker's clean.args() function in the plotrix 
package would help.

Jim