On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Nick Sabbe <nick.sa...@ugent.be> wrote: > Dear list, > > > > I've had this a few times now, and wonder if this is possible: > > I'm using a package, often for plotting something, but I want to tune the > way the plotting goes, in a way that was not foreseen by the maker of the > package. > > Now, most of the time, these kinds of R functions (say pkg::plot.something) > call into other R functions (say pkg::plot.something.internal), and it is > these that I want to tinker with. > > > > So, my question is: can I replace an R function in a package with a version > of my own, without having to somehow rebuild the package? I don't just want > a non-package bound copy of the function, I want to make sure that when I > call pkg::plot.something, this works as before, but when, from within this > function, pkg:: plot.something.internal is called, I want it to call _my_ > version of it. > > >
Note that there is a hook available for plotting which may be sufficient if the real application is just plot and you need to intercept it at the hooked spot. See ?plot.new -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
