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Execute a function call similar to do.call

Source: R/do.call2.R
do.call2.Rd

This function is supposed to be a replacement for do.call in situations where you need to pass big R objects. Unlike do.call, this function allows to pass objects via ... to avoid a copy.

Usage

do.call2(fun, ..., .args = list())

Arguments

fun

[character(1)]
Name of the function to call.

...

[any]
Arguments to fun. Best practice is to specify them in a key = value syntax.

.args

[list]
Arguments to fun as a (named) list. Will be passed after arguments in .... Default is list().

Value

Return value of fun.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  library(microbenchmark)
  x = 1:1e7
  microbenchmark(do.call(head, list(x, n = 1)), do.call2("head", x, n = 1))
} # }