On 08/04/2010 5:16 PM, David.Epstein wrote:
There is quite a long piece of code defining a certain function in one of the
R packages.
I think the code has a bug and I want to get the code into a file so that I
can take a proper look, and possibly fix it.
how does one do this? (I mean getting the code into a file, not fixing the
bug.) I suppose I could copy and paste, but that's a bit error prone for
various reasons. I want the same arrangement of code formatting as in the
original---copy and paste often messes this up.
You can't get this unless the package was installed with
R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE. What you see in the console is *not* the original,
it's a deparsed version of it.
To get the original, download the source to the package, and look in the
R subdirectory. If it's a base package, the package sources are online at
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library
This is the development trunk; different released versions will be in
different subdirs below /R, e.g. 2.10.1 will be in
https://svn.r-project.org/R/tags/R-2-10-1/src/library/
Duncan Murdoch
I tried using as.character(functionname) but that wasn't at all appreciated.
I tried searching the archives of this forum but couldn't figure out
exactly what to search for (got too many hits). I also tried Google, but
that was also no help.
Thanks
David
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