[R] documenting yoru progress

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

> survey.write <- function(x) {
+    print(match.call())
+    x
+ }
> out <- survey.write(pi+3)
survey.write(x = pi + 3)


On Dec 2, 2007 6:55 PM, tom sgouros <tomfool at as220.org> wrote:
>
>
> Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If what you mean is that you have a file, test.R, of R commands
> > and you are using source("test.R") and you wish to discover the
> > name "test.R" without hard coding it in your file, then place this in
> > test.R:
> >
> > ofile <- parent.frame(2)$ofile
> >
> > and ofile will be set to "test.R".  Note that the line shown should not
> > be within a function or other local environment within the file but
> > directly at top level.
>
> Thank you, that is an excellent hack, and I will use it carefully
> (though often), but it isn't quite what I had in mind.
>
> In my script called test.R, there is a function called "survey.write",
> which writes a report based on some survey results.  It is called
> several times at the top level.  I would like the report to say how
> "survey.write" was invoked, whether it was invoked as
> "survey.write(res.raw,res.q)" or "survey.write(bus.raw,bus.q)".
> Obviously I have access to the values of the arguments, but I want the
> names of those arguments, or a string containing it all.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  -tom
>
>
> >
> > This is hack which may need to be modified if the internals of the
> > source command change.
> >
> > On Dec 2, 2007 6:24 PM, Tom Sgouros <tomfool at as220.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all:
> > >
> > > I have a function that writes a fairly elaborate report based on some
> > > survey data.  For documentation and bookkeeping purposes, I'd like to
> > > write out in the report the function call that produced the report, or
> > > at least enough information to help me recreate the steps that led to
> > > that report.  I've been generating all the reports with scripts, in
> > > order to be able to recreate the steps, but apart from the file name, I
> > > don't yet have a way to match the report to the script that created it.
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest easy ways to do this?  From within a function, is the
> > > function call text available somehow, or the names of the arguments used
> > > in the function invocation?
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > >  -tom
> > >
> > >
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