L’une des choses que je me découvre souvent est le suivi des commandes utilisées pour générer des données et des objets, et j’ai trouvé que le commentaire était un outil utile à cet égard.
'Matched.call.data' et 'generate.command.string' font l'affaire. Pas parfait, mais utile et utile pour 'comment ()'. :)
# Comments only accept strings...
# Substituting the escaped quotes ('\"') makes it prettier.
generate.command.string <- function( matched.call.data )
{
command.string <- as.character( bquote( .( list( matched.call.data ) ) ) )
sapply( bquote( .(command.string) ),
USE.NAMES=FALSE,
function( x )
gsub( "\\\"", "\'", as.list( match.call() )$x )[[2]] )
}
# Some generating function...
generate.matrix <- function( nrows, ncols, data=NA ) {
# Some generated object
mat <- matrix( data= data, nrow= nrows, ncol= ncols )
matched.call.data <- do.call( "call",
c( list( as.character( match.call()[[1]] ) ),
lapply( as.list( match.call() )[-1], eval ) ) )
comment( mat ) <- c( Generated= date(),
Command = generate.command.string( matched.call.data ) )
mat
}
# Generate an object with a missing argument.
emptyMat <- generate.matrix( nrows=2, ncols=2 )
comment( emptyMat )
# Generate without formally stating arguments.
dataMat <- generate.matrix( 2, 2, sample(1:4, 4, replace= TRUE ) )
comment( dataMat )
# And with a longer command.
charMat <- generate.matrix( 3, 3,
c( 'This', 'is', 'a', 'much', 'longer',
'argument', 'section', 'that', 'wraps') )
comment( charMat )
# And with a variable.
myData <- c( 'An', 'expanded', 'command', 'argument')
charMat2 <- generate.matrix( 2, 2, myData )
comment( charMat2 )
# Create a new object from an original command.
Sys.sleep(1)
emptyMat2 <- eval( parse( text= comment( emptyMat )[['Command']] ) )
dataMat2 <- eval( parse( text= comment( emptyMat )[['Command']] ) )
# Check equality of the static matrices.
identical( emptyMat, emptyMat2 )
# The generation dates are different.
all.equal( emptyMat, emptyMat2, check.attributes= FALSE )
comment( emptyMat )['Generated'] <- NA
comment( emptyMat2 )['Generated'] <- NA
identical( emptyMat, emptyMat2 )
# Command argument structure still works too.
str( as.list( match.call(
generate.matrix, parse( text=comment( charMat2 )[[ 'Command' ]] ) ) )[-1] )