[R] What is a 'closure'?

[Bert Gunter]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Ajay Askoolum <aa2e72e at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> Thanks for clarifying.
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> Is my (new) understanding stated below correct?

No.

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> - A closure is any function (user- or system- defined) where is.primitive(functionName) is FALSE.
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> - is.primitive(functionName) is FALSE when functionName is a system-defined function that is coded in R itself.
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