On 12-08-08 4:59 PM, Chris Warren wrote:
Thanks, that was helpful in finding a bug in a library I was using, but now I'd
like to run the original code (the revised code is unable to access some of the
functions in the package, apparently, but I think I can work around it by
running and checking the original function).
How can I recover the original function? I tried using
insertSource("SourceFileWithOriginalFunctionCode.R", package = "Package",
functions = "functionOfInterest")
but I run into the same inability to access some the package functions used by
the function.
I also tried reloading but got
"The following object(s) are masked _by_ ‘.GlobalEnv’:
probtrans"
When you reply to a message that is more than 2 years old, it's helpful
to give some context.
Generally the reason a function can't see things in a package is because
its environment is wrong. Since all functions in a package normally use
the same environment, a simple fix is to put
environment(newfoo) <- environment(oldbar)
to copy the assignment of an unchanged function oldbar from the package
to the new function you are trying to work with.
But the general way to "recover the original function" is just to
restart R and attach the package.
Duncan Murdoch
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