R help - Jan 2010 - Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable

Hi everyone,

Would somebody please explain (or point me to a reference that explains) 
the following error:

"Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable"

I was trying to use rep() to replicate a function:

 > example_function <- function() { return(TRUE) }
 > rep(example_function, 3)
Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable

But I just cannot understand this error.  I can combine functions using 
"c" without any problems:

 > c(example_function, example_function)
[[1]]
function ()
{
    return(TRUE)
}

[[2]]
function ()
{
    return(TRUE)
}

What am I doing wrong when I use rep()?

Thanks in advance,

Matthew Walker

See ?rep where it says that the argument must be a vector.  Try
   rep(list(sin), 3)

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Matthew Walker
<matthew.walker.1 at ulaval.ca> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Would somebody please explain (or point me to a reference that explains)
the
> following error:
>
> "Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable"
>
> I was trying to use rep() to replicate a function:
>
>> example_function <- function() { return(TRUE) }
>> rep(example_function, 3)
> Error: object of type 'closure' is not subsettable
>
> But I just cannot understand this error. ?I can combine functions using
"c"
> without any problems:
>
>> c(example_function, example_function)
> [[1]]
> function ()
> {
> ? return(TRUE)
> }
>
> [[2]]
> function ()
> {
> ? return(TRUE)
> }
>
> What am I doing wrong when I use rep()?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matthew Walker
>
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