[R] Injecting code in a package?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Nick Sabbe <nick.sabbe at ugent.be> wrote:
> Dear list,
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> I've had this a few times now, and wonder if this is possible:
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> I'm using a package, often for plotting something, but I want to tune the
> way the plotting goes, in a way that was not foreseen by the maker of the
> package.
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> Now, most of the time, these kinds of R functions (say pkg::plot.something)
> call into other R functions (say pkg::plot.something.internal), and it is
> these that I want to tinker with.
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> So, my question is: can I replace an R function in a package with  a version
> of my own, without having to somehow rebuild the package? I don't just want
> a non-package bound copy of the function, I want to make sure that when I
> call pkg::plot.something, this works as before, but when, from within this
> function, pkg:: plot.something.internal is called, I want it to call _my_
> version of it.
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Note that there is a hook available for plotting which may be
sufficient if the real application is just plot and you need to
intercept it at the hooked spot.  See ?plot.new

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