On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > On SVN revision 41087:
which is over 100 old. Now we are in code freeze, the pace of change should reduce considerably (although people will continue to work in R-devel) > ?args has this example line: > > args(c) # -> NULL (c is a 'primitive' function) > > The comment seems out of date, as args(c) does in fact have a non-NULL return > value: > > args(c) > # function (..., recursive = FALSE) > # NULL That has been fixed once but the fix seems to have got lost, so I have put in back. > While at it, I was wondering, why > > formals(c) > > still returns NULL, in contrast. Because only closures have formals, the way things are defined. This makes sense to me as formals<-() cannot work on primitives. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
