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

[Seeker]

I need to update posterior dist function upon the coming results and
find the posterior mean each time.

On Mar 4, 1:31 pm, jim holtman <jholt... at gmail.com> wrote:
> What exactly are you trying to do?  'foo' calls 'foo' calls 'foo' ....
>  How did you expect it to stop the recursive calls?
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> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Seeker <zhongm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here is the test code.
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> > foo<-function(x) exp(-x)
> > for (i in 1:5)
> > {
> > foo<-function(x) foo(x)*x
> > foo(2)
> > }
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> > 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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