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I wanted to simulate the Matlab DISPLAY function for some time now.
After seeing a recent proposal by Gabor Grothendieck I came up with the
following solution,
display <- function(...) {
my_names <- lapply(substitute(placeholderFunction(...))[-1], deparse)
for (my in my_names) cat(my, "=", eval(parse(text=my)), "\n", sep=" ")
}
that works about as good as I would have hoped:
> a <- 1; b <- a + 1
> display(a, b, sin(1))
a = 1
b = 2
sin(1) = 0.841471
My questions:
(1) Is there a better or more appropriate way to write such a function? ---
I'm not so well versed in internal R functions such as (de)parse(),
substitute(), or eval().
(2) What is the role of the "placeholderFunction"? I could not find enough
information about it resp. about the whole construction.
Thanks, Hans Werner
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