[Rd] incomplete results from as.character.srcref() in some cases involving quote()

[Tomas Kalibera]

wholeSrcref attribute is documented in ?parse to be the source reference 
corresponding to the already parsed text. The implementation in the 
parser matches the documentation - the code stops at the last 
byte/character of the expression, that is, on the closing brace - which 
is the "already parsed text". I think this works as documented (also 
source() uses the current implementation of wholeSrcref).

Best
Tomas

On 06/18/2018 04:20 PM, Georgi Boshnakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The result of  as,character() on  'srcref' objects doesn't have the closing ')' in some cases involving 'quote':
>
>> e4 <- quote({2+2})
>> class(attr(e4, "wholeSrcref"))
> [1] "srcref"
>> as.character(attr(e4, "wholeSrcref"))
> [1] "e4 <- quote({2+2}"
>
> As a result printing the object also lacks it and gives an incomplete expression:
>
>> attr(e4, "wholeSrcref")
> e4 <- quote({2+2}
>
> It seems that it is the top level quote that suffers from this. Here the inner 'quote' has the matching ')' but the outer one doesn't:
>
>> e5 <- quote({quote({2+2})})
>> class(attr(e5, "wholeSrcref"))
> [1] "srcref"
>> attr(e5, "wholeSrcref")
> e5 <- quote({quote({2+2})}
>> as.character(attr(e5, "wholeSrcref"))
> [1] "e5 <- quote({quote({2+2})}"
>> attributes(e5)
> ...
>
> $wholeSrcref
> e5 <- quote({quote({2+2})}
>
>
> Attribute 'wholeSrcref' seems undocumented but it is of class 'srcref' which is documented (eg ?srcref) and has supporting methods.
>
>
> Georgi Boshnakov
>
>
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