[R] Is it possible to recursively update a function?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 04.03.2010 20:08, Seeker wrote:
> Here is the test code.
>
> foo<-function(x) exp(-x)
> for (i in 1:5)
> {
> foo<-function(x) foo(x)*x
> foo(2)


Hmmm, wenn do you think does the evaluation stop? Your recursion has an 
infinity depth.
If you cannot get the recursion right (and even if you can): Try to get 
around without recursion, it is in most cases a bad idea in R: You are 
wasting memory and it is rather slow compared to iterative approaches.

Uwe Ligges




> }
>
> The error is "evalution nested too deeply". I tried Recall() but it
> didn't work either. Thanks a lot for your input.
>
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