>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:48:56 +0100 (BST) writes:
>> formals(args(log))
BDR> $x
BDR> $base
BDR> exp(1)
BDR> gives what formals(log) used to.
(I knew). I've been asking myself several times now,
if we should not make
formals() do this automatically.
I know that the change might break some code
which has used things like
if(is.null(formals(fun))) {
## treat fun as a primitive function
}
but I think R has provided is.primitive(.)
long enough now so that
we could consider the change.
Martin
BDR> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, miguel manese wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the latest R this does not work anymore
>>
>> args <- formals(log)
>>
>> because log is primitive. Is there any other way to get the argument
>> list? I just need the name of the parameter to display some error
>> message about it. I have looked at args() but I can't find anything to
>> extract the argument names from it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> M. Manese
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