djhurio wrote:
>
> I believe there is not such thing as source code for a variable. I believe
> if you define x=y*y, x is keeping only the values of y*y, but not how they
> were computed. Am I right?
>
In general yes. Basic variables do not store a copy of the function call
that created them.
However, some objects have been build to store a memory of how they were
created. Take for example a linear model:
model <- lm( demand ~ Time, data = BOD )
One of the components of the `model` variable is called call and it stores a
language object that is a copy of the lm function call that was used to
generate `model`:
> model$call
lm(formula = demand ~ Time, data = BOD)
This object could be passed to the eval() function to basically re-run the
operation that generated `lm`.
The str() function can be used to discover what sorts of tidbits may be
hiding inside a variable.
Hope this helps!
-Charlie
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