Try this: body(foo)[[grep('^line2', body(foo))]][[3]] <- 2
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Let's say we have the following function: > > foo <- function(x) > > { > > > line1 <- x > > > line2 <- 0 > > > line3 <- line1 + line2 > > > return(line3) > > } > > And that we want to change the second line to be: > > line2 <- 2 > > How would you do that? > > The two ways I know of are either to use > > fix(foo) > > And change the function. > > Or to just write the function again. > > Is there another way? > > *What I would like* is for some way to represent the function as a vector of > strings (well, characters), then change one of it's values, and then turn it > into a function again. > > The reason I am asking is that I just published a post online where I used a > function to which I did a minor tweak (so to improve it's output for my > particular case). > This tweaking was just adding one line of code, to a function who's length > is 187 lines of code. So instead of repasting all the function on my blog, I > decided to just explain how to edit it. But I would rather have a simple > code that edited the function for the reader. > > > Thanks, > Tal > > ----------------Contact > Details:------------------------------------------------------- > Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | > www.r-statistics.com (English) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.