[Rd] as.list(subclassed function) -> cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'list'

[luke-tierney at uiowa.edu]

For this application I would use names(formals(object)) to extract the
formal arguments.

luke

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, William Dunlap wrote:

> I was looking for all the glm-related 'family' functions
> in stats using the following predicate that returns TRUE
> for any function whose first argument is called "link".
>   is.family <- function(object) is.function(object) &&
>            identical(names(as.list(object))[1], "link")
>
> It threw an error when applied to SSfol
>   > is.family(SSfol)
>   Error in as.vector(x, "list") :
>     cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'list'
> but works when I unclass SSfol
>   > is.family(unclass(SSfol))
>   [1] FALSE
>
> It looks like as.list fails on any function that is assigned
> a class:
>   > as.list(function(x)x+1)
>   $x
>
>
>   [[2]]
>   x + 1
>
>   > as.list(structure(function(x)x+1, class="unrecognized class name"))
>   Error in as.vector(x, "list") :
>     cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'list'
>
> Bill Dunlap
> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
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