[R] display full form in args

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Feb 25 17:03:13 CET 2005


>>>>> "Adaikalavan" == Adaikalavan Ramasamy <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk>
>>>>>     on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:38:27 +0000 writes:

    Adaikalavan> Prof. Ripley, As usual thank you for helpful
    Adaikalavan> comments.

    Adaikalavan> In future, I will check methods("cut") or
    Adaikalavan> methods("merge") which shows the available
    Adaikalavan> methods before using args() on the appropriate
    Adaikalavan> function.

Just a side note:

Using  str() instead of  args() does not print the (somewhat
ugly) "NULL" body 
 {but it also does not *return* anything useful. Consequently the
  show.args() function of Dimitry would have to be rewritten
  slightly when using str() instead of args()}.

Martin




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