On Wed, 14 May 2025, at 4:18 PM, smallepsilon wrote:
> No need to apologize. I hope the following example helps clarify what I
> mean. Suppose that modify_matrix(mat, other_args) is a function that,
> among other things, applies eigen() to mat. For good reasons,
> other_args has no default value. It is sometimes convenient, though, to
> supply the user with default values. Therefore, there is another
> function, convenient_modify_matrix():
>
I'd just use all.equal but I *think* you could just check the call is
constructed correctly, e.g.
convenient_modify_matrix <- function(mat) modify_matrix(mat, other_args =
default)
identical(
body(convenient_modify_matrix),
call("modify_matrix", quote(mat), other_args = quote(default))
)
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