[Rd] print.closure at the R level

Romain Francois romain.francois at dbmail.com
Sun Apr 19 12:14:54 CEST 2009


Yesterday's patch did not print the attributes. This one seems fine:

 > f <- function(){}
 > attr( f, "yada" ) <- function( ) "lobster bisk"
 > f
function(){}
attr(,"yada")
function( ) "lobster bisk"

Romain

Romain Francois wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 18/04/2009 10:12 AM, Romain Francois wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Could the code that auto prints a function/closure be extracted from 
>>> print.c so that there would be a print.closure function.
>>> I would like to be able to mask a print.closure function so that I 
>>> have a custom auto-print. One reason for that is I plan to have 
>>> syntax highlighting within the R console.
>>
>> The class of a closure is "function", so you'd want the method to be 
>> print.function.  Currently that doesn't work for auto printing, so 
>> your suggestion is still interesting.  (I'm not sure why auto 
>> printing is special here...)
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
> The attached patch implements exposing the print.function at the R level.
>
> Romain
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