Not answering your question, but just pointing out the example of base::.NotYetImplemented()
essentially doing the same thing. Best, baptiste 2009/9/28 Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz>: > > I have vague recollections of seeing this question discussed on r-help > previously, but I can't find the relevant postings. > > I want to determine (from within a given function) the name of the function > calling that given function. > > E.g. if I have a function foo() which calls a function bar(), and also > a function clyde() which calls bar(), I want to have, in the code of bar(), > an instruction which will return the character string "foo" if bar() was > called from foo() and the string "clyde" if bar() was called from clyde(). > > Without really understanding what I'm doing I cobbled together the > following: > > fname <- as.character(sys.call(-1))[1] > > This ***seems*** to work, at least in simple test cases. > > But is it reliably robust? Are there traps for young players that I am > not seeing? > > My ``solution'' returns NA as the value of fname if bar() is called from the > command line, rather than being called by foo() or clyde(). This is > acceptable. > I think .... > > Any avuncular advice from those younger and wiser than myself? :-) > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > ###################################################################### > Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.