[Rd] Getting param names of primitives

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Even that does not appear to work everywhere.
Either of these returns NULL:

formals(args("{"))
formals(args(match.fun("{")))

> R.version.string # XP
[1] "R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)"


On 7/11/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > formals(args(log))
> $x
>
>
> $base
> exp(1)
>
> gives what formals(log) used to.
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, miguel manese wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the latest R this does not work anymore
> >
> > args <- formals(log)
> >
> > because log is primitive. Is there any other way to get the argument
> > list? I just need the name of the parameter to display some error
> > message about it. I have looked at args() but I can't find anything to
> > extract the argument names from it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > M. Manese
>
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