Substituting functions in package - Lattice

You need to set the environment on your version of print.trellis to
match that of the original (at least that is what has worked for me  
when
trying to do modified functions from the trellis package).  Try
something like:

environment(print.trellis) <- environment(lattice::print.trellis)

Hope this helps,

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Saptarshi Guha
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 2:55 PM
To: R-Help
Subject: [R] Substituting functions in package - Lattice

Hi,
	I'm trying to learn how a package works but
substituting a parituclart function with my own (basically
the original one with some debug statements).
	The package is lattice and the method is
"print.trellis" which is a
S3 method and is not visible.
	To replace this, i sourced a file with the rewritten
print.trellis, and the old one was replaced.
	However, i get this error when I attempt to print a
trellis object (e.g an xyplot)
	
	Error in assign("last.object", x, env = .LatticeEnv) :
	object ".LatticeEnv" not found
	
	I notice that .LatticeEnv is defined in zzz.R (in the R
folder of the lattice source).

	My question, how does one do development on the lattice
package without having to recompile everything and install a package?

	I read something about emacs and development (i use
emacs) in the zzz.R file
	"## .First.lib will be used if the NAMESPACE file is
missing.  This is ## useful during development, thanks to C-c
C-l in Emacs/ESS. It won't ## be used if a NAMESPACE file is
present.  Note: Due to registration ## of C functions done in
the NAMESPACE file, wireframe (and possibly ## cloud) won't
work in this scenario."

	But couldn't quite figure it out.
	Thanks for any help provided.
	Saptarshi


Saptarshi Guha | sapsi at pobox.com | http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~sguha


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