> formals(args(log))
$x
$base
exp(1)
gives what formals(log) used to.
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, miguel manese wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the latest R this does not work anymore
>
> args <- formals(log)
>
> because log is primitive. Is there any other way to get the argument
> list? I just need the name of the parameter to display some error
> message about it. I have looked at args() but I can't find anything to
> extract the argument names from it.
>
> Thanks,
> M. Manese
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