[R] How do I obtain the current active path of a function that's being called?

Greg Snow 538280 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 20:56:51 CEST 2012


Wow, even those of us who have been using S for more than 25 years
(and R since well before version 1.0) still have things to learn since
R keeps improving.  So I stand corrected (well sit actually) on the
part about not keeping track of this sort of thing.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12-06-05 4:58 PM, Michael wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> How do I obtain the current active path of a function that's being called?
>>
>> That's to say, I have several source files and they all contain definition
>> of function A.
>>
>> I would like to figure out which function A and from which file is the one
>> that's being called and is currently active?
>
>
> You've had lots of good suggestions so far.  One more possibility:
>
> getSrcFilename
>
> and the related functions in the same help topic will usually tell you the
> filename and other location information for functions that you source().
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
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