[R] Continuation-parsing / trampoline / infinite recursion problem

Bert Gunter
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 17:15:50 -0000

make_thunk is probably unnecessary and apparently problematic. I think
you could use do.call()  instead, as do.call(f,list(...))  .



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On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Thomas Mailund <mailund at birc.au.dk>
wrote:
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>> On 10 Aug 2016, at 13:56, Thomas Mailund <mailund at birc.au.dk>
wrote:
>>
>> make_thunk <- function(f, ...) f(...)
>
> Doh!  It is of course this one:
>
> make_thunk <- function(f, ...) function() f(?)
>
> It just binds a function call into a thunk so I can delay its evaluation.
>
> Sorry
>         Thomas
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