> The body of a function isn't an expression, it's a language object. A
> language object is represented internally as a pairlist, while an expression
> is represented as a generic vector, i.e. the thing that list() gives.
That doesn't agree with the documentation of is.language which implies
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 02/05/2011 3:21 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What's the preferred way of capturing the expression representing the
>> contents of a function?
>>
>> * body(write.csv) gives me a braced expression
>> * body(write.csv)[-1] gi
On 02/05/2011 3:21 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
Hi all,
What's the preferred way of capturing the expression representing the
contents of a function?
* body(write.csv) gives me a braced expression
* body(write.csv)[-1] gives me a mangled call
* as.list(body(write.csv)[-1]) gives me a list of calls
