Dynamic arguments to expand.grid
expand.grid
can take a list
as its input, so what about replicate
?
expand.grid(replicate(3, v, simplify=FALSE))
For fun, as a function (though I know you would know how to do this):
new.expand.grid <- function(input, reps) {
expand.grid(replicate(reps, input, simplify = FALSE))
}
new.expand.grid(c(1, 2), 4)
# Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4
# 1 1 1 1 1
# 2 2 1 1 1
# 3 1 2 1 1
# 4 2 2 1 1
# 5 1 1 2 1
# 6 2 1 2 1
# 7 1 2 2 1
# 8 2 2 2 1
# 9 1 1 1 2
# 10 2 1 1 2
# 11 1 2 1 2
# 12 2 2 1 2
# 13 1 1 2 2
# 14 2 1 2 2
# 15 1 2 2 2
# 16 2 2 2 2
do.call
is the standard way of passing a dynamic set of arguments to a function:
new.expand.grid <- function(vec,nrep) do.call(expand.grid,rep(list(vec),nrep))
Example: new.expand.grid(letters[1:2],4)
Var1 Var2 Var3 Var4
1 a a a a
2 b a a a
3 a b a a
4 b b a a
5 a a b a
6 b a b a
7 a b b a
8 b b b a
9 a a a b
10 b a a b
11 a b a b
12 b b a b
13 a a b b
14 b a b b
15 a b b b
16 b b b b