Using “…” and “replicate”

Question

In the documentation of sapply and replicate there is a warning regarding using ...

Now, I can accept it as such, but would li

Answer 1

If you look at the code for replicate:

> replicate
function (n, expr, simplify = TRUE) 
sapply(integer(n), eval.parent(substitute(function(...) expr)), 
    simplify = simplify)

You see that the function is evaluated in the parent frame, where the ... from your calling function no longer exists.