I'm rather puzzled by this behavior:
e
export("caption<-", "caption", "label", "label<-", "align<-",
"align", "digits<-", "digits", "display<-", "display", "xtable",
"print.xtable", "toLatex.xtable")
> e[[1L]]
e[[1L]]
export
> e[-1L]
e[-1L]
"caption<-"("caption", "label", "label<-", "align<-", "align",
"digits<-", "digits", "display<-", "display", "xtable",
"print.xtable",
"toLatex.xtable")
I'm not at all clear what should result from removing the first element,
i.e. the 'export', but I would not expect the first argument to be
promoted into the function position. I guess I would expect a coercion
to list or pairlist first, after which the [-1L] would produce a
meaningful result on that coercion. In any event I do observe that
as.character(e[-1L]) produces the expected result:
as.character(e[-1L])
[1] "caption<-" "caption" "label" "label<-"
[5] "align<-" "align" "digits<-" "digits"
[9] "display<-" "display" "xtable" "print.xtable"
[13] "toLatex.xtable"
This code is from parseNamespaceFile (on the xtable package).
Mick Jordan
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