I have a function in R that I call multiple times. I want to keep track of the number of times that I've called it and use that to make decisions on what to do inside of the function. Here's what I have right now:
f = function( x ) {
count <<- count + 1
return( mean(x) )
}
count = 1
numbers = rnorm( n = 100, mean = 0, sd = 1 )
for ( x in seq(1,100) ) {
mean = f( numbers )
print( count )
}
I don't like that I have to declare the variable count outside the scope of the function. In C or C++ I could just make a static variable. Can I do a similar thing in the R programming language?