Message-ID: <4753F97A.60308@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2007-12-03T12:41:30Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: documenting yoru progress
In-Reply-To: <20071202232420.3348AFAC8C4@as220.org>
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