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Dear expRts, I just realized that the "..." argument in a function cannot be used without taking precautions sometimes. The following behaviour is what I stumbled upon: > myrepl <- function(length, fun, ...) { + replicate(length, fun(...))} > myrepl(20, sample, 1:5) [1] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > myotherrepl <- function(length, fun, ...) { + args <- list(...) + replicate(length, do.call(fun, args))} > myotherrepl(20, sample, 1:5) [,1]...