On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13-06-28 03:57 PM, Peter Meilstrup wrote: > > Well, once you begin messing with eval.parent(), you _are_ telling R > > what environment to work in, and things have the potential to go wrong > > at that point because you're telling R to work in environment you don't > > know anything about. Having to be explicit with a :: is just > > compensating for an earlier thing you "shouldn't need to" be doing with > > environments (in my opinion.) > > What would your preferred idiom be for this task (calling another > function with all of the arguments of the previous call, without > uglifying the call in the process)? I read your e-mail about making the > comparison with S3 method dispatch, but to be honest I don't understand > it very well -- don't know if those particular techniques are applicable > here ... ? > > Ben > In the case of lmer you could do this: delegate <- structure(NULL, class="delegate") #' @S3method glmer delegate glmer.delegate <- glmer lmer <- function (formula, data, family = NULL, blahblahblah, ...) { if (!is.null(family)) { UseMethod("glmer", delegate) } #... } ### Peter [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel