Re: [Rd] dput(as.list(function...)...) bug

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 23/03/2009 7:37 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote: It appears to be the zero-length name: is.name(ff$x) = TRUE as.character(ff$x) = This may give you a hint: y - ff$x y Error: argument y is missing, with no default It's a special internal thing that

Re: [Rd] dput(as.list(function...)...) bug

2009-03-24 Thread Stavros Macrakis
Peter, Duncan, I understand that the missing value indicator is special and will not behave like an ordinary value in evaluation. I was only discussing its handling in the text representation functions dput and dump. Duncan, You are absolutely right that list(x=) is parseable (though not

Re: [Rd] dput(as.list(function...)...) bug

2009-03-24 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 3/24/2009 10:02 AM, Stavros Macrakis wrote: Peter, Duncan, I understand that the missing value indicator is special and will not behave like an ordinary value in evaluation. I was only discussing its handling in the text representation functions dput and dump. Duncan, You are absolutely

Re: [Rd] dput(as.list(function...)...) bug

2009-03-23 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Stavros Macrakis wrote: Tested in R 2.8.1 Windows ff - formals(function(x)1) ff1 - as.list(function(x)1)[1] # ff1 acts the same as ff in the examples below, but is a list rather than a pairlist dput( ff , control=c(warnIncomplete)) list(x = ) This string is not

Re: [Rd] dput(as.list(function...)...) bug

2009-03-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/03/2009 7:37 PM, Stavros Macrakis wrote: Tested in R 2.8.1 Windows ff - formals(function(x)1) ff1 - as.list(function(x)1)[1] # ff1 acts the same as ff in the examples below, but is a list rather than a pairlist dput( ff , control=c(warnIncomplete)) list(x = ) This string is not

Re: [Rd] dput(as.list(function...)...) bug

2009-03-23 Thread William Dunlap
-Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Murdoch Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 5:28 PM To: Stavros Macrakis Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] dput(as.list(function...)...) bug On 23/03/2009 7:37 PM