What is do.call function in R?

Recipe Objective

What is do.call function in R? The do.call() lets us call any R function, instead of writing out the arguments one by one, a do.call () executes any function by its name's when a list of the corresponding argument is passed. This recipe provides an example on do.call () function.

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Step 1 - Create a list

a <- c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

Step 2- Use do.call(function,list)

Statistical results for the list given is executed

do.call('sum',list(a))

"Output of the code is 55" 

do.call("max",list(a))

"Output of the code is 10"  

do.call("min",list(a))

 "Output of the code is 1" 

do.call("mean",list(a))

 "Output of the code is 5.5" 

do.call("median",list(a))

 "Output of the code is 5.5"