complex numbers in library function (PR#1737)

murdoch@stats.uwo.ca murdoch@stats.uwo.ca
Wed, 3 Jul 2002 15:15:52 +0200 (MET DST)


This looks like bug  PR#1697 in the deparser.  I've written a patch
that fixes that case; I'll check out this one.

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 14:25:59 +0200 (MET DST), you wrote in message
<200207031225.OAA08552@pubhealth.ku.dk>:

>Full_Name: Alex Deckmyn
>Version: 1.5.1
>OS: Linux Mandrake 7.0
>Submission from: (NULL) (193.190.63.62)
>
>
>A short function in a library contains the complex number -2i :
>
>phihat <- function(x)
>  {
>x+ (-2i)
>  }
>
>
>If i read the source file with source("phihat") this works fine. If I include it
>as
> a function in a library and read it with library(test), the function is still 
>read corectly, but when I print it out it shows as
>
>> phihat
>function (x)
>{
>    x + (-0+2i)
>}

The difference is that in the first case R keeps the source of the
function (in attr(phihat,'source')).  In the second case it deparses
the internal representation.

Duncan Murdoch

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