[Rd] Modifying parsed code

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, hadley wickham wrote:

> I would like to take this:
>
> .img(plot(1:10), filename="a")

I presume from your title that you want to take

foo <- parse(text='.img(plot(1:10), filename="a")')

?  That's an expression.  In which case

> foo[[1]][[2]]
plot(1:10)

(first expression which a call, and calls are symbol, arg1, arg2 ...).

>
> and produce
>
> plot(1:10)
>
> ie. whenever .img is used, I want to take the first argument and throw
> away everything else.
>
> (I am trying to produce a Sweave like environment in which I can apply
> certain functions, but not have them displayed in the output)
>
> I think I should be able to do it using substitute, but I don't know
> how to operate on language objects.  Any hints would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hadley
>
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