[R] how does one print code

[Phil Spector]

David -
    You can do what you want pretty easily using sink.
Suppose you want the source code for function "blah"
in the file "blah.func":

sink('blah.func')
print(blah)
sink()

 					- Phil Spector
 					 Statistical Computing Facility
 					 Department of Statistics
 					 UC Berkeley
 					 spector at stat.berkeley.edu



On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, David.Epstein wrote:

>
> There is quite a long piece of code defining a certain function in one of the
> R packages.
> I think the code has a bug and I want to get the code into a file so that I
> can take a proper look, and possibly fix it.
>
> how does one do this? (I mean getting the code into a file, not fixing the
> bug.) I suppose I could copy and paste, but that's a bit error prone for
> various reasons. I want the same arrangement of code formatting as in the
> original---copy and paste often messes this up.
>
> I tried using as.character(functionname) but that wasn't at all appreciated.
> I  tried searching the archives of this forum but couldn't figure out
> exactly what to search for (got too many hits). I also tried Google, but
> that was also no help.
>
> Thanks
> David
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