Just checking in to see whether it is intended or not that assigning
new formals to a function/closure causes any attributes to be dropped:
EXAMPLE:
> fcn <- structure(function() {}, foo="foo", class=c("foo"))
> str(fcn)
function ()
- attr(*, "srcref")=Class 'srcref' atomic [1:8] 1 18 1 30 18 30 1 1
.. ..- attr(*, "srcfile")=Classes 'srcfilecopy', 'srcfile' <environment: 0x000
000000c00d128>
- attr(*, "foo")= chr "foo"
- attr(*, "class")= chr "foo"
> formals(fcn) <- list(a=1)
> str(fcn)
function (a = 1)
> attributes(fcn)
NULL
TROUBLESHOOTING:
>From the definition of formals()<-, it's quite clear why this happens:
> `formals<-`
function (fun, envir = environment(fun), value)
{
bd <- body(fun)
as.function(c(value, if (is.null(bd) || is.list(bd)) list(bd) else bd),
envir)
}
<bytecode: 0x000000000b97a848>
<environment: namespace:base>
I'm fine with this, but I just wanted to make sure it's not overlooked.
/Henrik
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