[Rd] substitute creates an object which prints incorrectly (PR#9427)

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 13:17:02 CET 2006


Try issuing the command:

   options(keep.source = FALSE)

prior to running the code you displayed to force the actual source,
rather than the source attribute, to be displayed by print when printing
functions.

On 12/21/06, Bill.Venables at csiro.au <Bill.Venables at csiro.au> wrote:
> The function "substitute" seems to fail to make a genuine
> substitution, although the printed verision seems fine.  Here is an
> example.
>
> > m <- substitute(Y <- function(x) FUN(x+1),
> + list(Y = as.name("y"), FUN = as.name("sin")))
> > m
> y <- function(x) sin(x + 1)
> > eval(m)
> > y
> function(x) FUN(x+1)
>
> However the story doesn't end there.  The substitution appears to have
> been made, even though the printed version, this time, suggests
> otherwise.
>
> > y(pi)
> [1] -0.841471
> > sin(pi+1)
> [1] -0.841471
> >
>
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