That did it.
Thanks Henrique!
Tal
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Henrique Dallazuanna <www...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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
> >
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