Hi, Is there any way, from R code, to perform introspection as to where certain names acquired their values? The specific functionality I'm looking for in this case is to be able to request my editor to view the definition corresponding to a name in its original source location (presuming for the moment that that location exists). Other functionality that I'm looking for is to identify where in the current image a particular name is used -- "what functions use the value bound to a particular name?"
The context for these questions, in case anyone is interested, is that I am usually a Common Lisp programmer, and my programming environment for that (SLIME) is what I'm used to. R is sufficiently close to CL (the discovery of withCallingHandlers/withRestarts was a pleasant surprise) that I decided to experiment with implementing a SLIME backend for R -- and enough of it seems to work that I'm motivated to make it more complete. (The current state of the project is summarised at <http://common-lisp.net/~crhodes/swankr/>). Thanks, Christophe ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
