> On 13 May 2004 at 16:30, Brittany Erin Laine wrote:
>
> > Is there any way that I can see the step by step code for functions in
> > the base package? For instance the dexp function. I am a student
> > working on writing my own function for something that is similar to
> > this dexp function and I would like to see the step by step code.
> >
> > Brittany Laine
> > GTA WVU Statistics Department
> > 331 Hodges
As several people have pointed out the dexp function in R immediately
calls .Internal and drops down to C code. For many of the d-p-q
functions like dexp, pexp, and qexp there are short C functions
defined in the src/nmath directory that do the calculation for a
single element of the response vector. The C code that is called
directly by the .Internal is rather complicated but its only purpose
is to provide for the vectorization of the R function. The real
evaluation goes on in dexp.c. In fact, other than checking for error
conditions it amounts to a single statement
return (give_log ?
(-x / scale) - log(scale) :
exp(-x / scale) / scale);
This is all to say that you probably don't want to go through the
step-by-step evaluation of the C code in a symbolic debugger because
most of the code that you will step through is devoted to the
vectorization. Go directly to the corresponding C function in the
src/nmath directory.
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