[Rd] replicate evaluates its second argument in wrong environment

[Hadley Wickham]

On Monday, February 15, 2021, David Winsemius <dwinsemius using comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> On 2/15/21 1:10 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>
>> This is a nice example of the motivation for tidy evaluation — since
>> enquo() captures the environment in which the promise should be
>> evaluated, there's no need for an additional explicit argument.
>>
>> library(rlang)
>>
>> replicate2 <- function (n, expr, simplify = "array") {
>>    exnr <- enquo(expr)
>>
>
> It does not appear that the line above would accomplish anything given the
> succeeding line. Or am I missing something? Taking it out doesn't seem to
> affect results. Whatever magic there is seems to be in the `eval_tidy`
> function, whose mechanism or rules seem opaque. Was "exnr" supposed to be
> passed to `eval_tidy`?
>
>
Oops, yes, obviously that was supposed to be expr. It doesn’t matter in
Gabor’s example because it evaluates to a constant but obviously would
matter in other cases.

Hadley


> --
>
> David.
>
>    sapply(integer(n), function(i) eval_tidy(expr), simplify = simplify)
>> }
>>
>> doRep2 <- function(a, b) sapply(a, replicate2, b)
>> doRep2(3, 2)
>> #>      [,1]
>> #> [1,]    2
>> #> [2,]    2
>> #> [3,]    2
>>
>> Hadley
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 7:09 AM Gabor Grothendieck
>> <ggrothendieck using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Currently replicate used within sapply within a function can fail
>>> because it gets the environment for its second argument, which is
>>> currently hard coded to be the parent frame, wrong.  See this link for
>>> a full example of how it goes wrong and how it could be made to work
>>> if it were possible to pass an envir argument to it.
>>>
>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66184446/sapplya-replica
>>> te-b-expression-no-longer-works-inside-a-function/66185079#66185079
>>>
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