documenting yoru progress
On 12/2/2007 6:24 PM, Tom Sgouros wrote:
Hello all: I have a function that writes a fairly elaborate report based on some survey data. For documentation and bookkeeping purposes, I'd like to write out in the report the function call that produced the report, or at least enough information to help me recreate the steps that led to that report. I've been generating all the reports with scripts, in order to be able to recreate the steps, but apart from the file name, I don't yet have a way to match the report to the script that created it. Can anyone suggest easy ways to do this? From within a function, is the function call text available somehow, or the names of the arguments used in the function invocation?
I think Gabor has answered your question directly, but another approach to solve the same underlying problem might be to work with Sweave. (Or ODFweave, etc.) These allow you to mix R code right into a document that explains the reasoning and includes both the input and output of the script. Duncan Murdoch