[Rd] Recursive objects

[peter dalgaard]

On May 4, 2011, at 14:35 , Kenn Konstabel wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Does anyone have a comprehensive list of recursive-type objects in R?
>> is.recursive defines them as by exclusion: "most types of objects are
>> regarded as recursive, except for  vector types, ‘NULL’ and symbols
>> (as given by ‘as.name’)."  I think this that means recursive objects
>> are:
>> 
>>  * lists
>>  * pairlists
>>  * calls
>>  * expressions
> 
> is.recursive(environment())
> # [1] TRUE


Closures:

> is.recursive(ls)
[1] TRUE


> 
>> 
>> Did I miss anything?
>> 
>> Hadley
>> 
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>> Department of Statistics / Rice University
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