[R] Functions starting with underscores

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Mon Jun 5 08:06:47 CEST 2006


Use backticks:

attr(`_foo`, "bar") <- "pow"

On 6/5/06, Joseph Wang <joe at gnacademy.org> wrote:
> I'm having problems with functions starting with underscores
>
> '_foo' <- function(x) {1}
>
> seems to work
>
> but I can't assign an attribute to this function
>
> attr('_foo', 'bar') <- 'pow'
>
> Any way of doing this?  This is for a C++ -> R wrapping system so I'd like to
> keep the C++ names which start with underscores.
>
> (please cc: responses to me personally)
>
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