For this application I would use names(formals(object)) to extract the
formal arguments.
luke
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, William Dunlap wrote:
I was looking for all the glm-related 'family' functions
in stats using the following predicate that returns TRUE
for any function whose first argument is called "link".
is.family <- function(object) is.function(object) &&
identical(names(as.list(object))[1], "link")
It threw an error when applied to SSfol
> is.family(SSfol)
Error in as.vector(x, "list") :
cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'list'
but works when I unclass SSfol
> is.family(unclass(SSfol))
[1] FALSE
It looks like as.list fails on any function that is assigned
a class:
> as.list(function(x)x+1)
$x
[[2]]
x + 1
> as.list(structure(function(x)x+1, class="unrecognized class name"))
Error in as.vector(x, "list") :
cannot coerce type 'closure' to vector of type 'list'
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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