R/function_type.R

In rstudio/promises: Abstractions for Promise-Based Asynchronous Programming

# Determine whether an expression counts as a function in a magrittr chain.
#
# @param a non-evaluated expression.
# @return logical - TRUE if expr represents a function, FALSE otherwise.
is_function <- function(expr) {
  is.symbol(expr) || is.function(expr)
}

# Prepare a magrittr rhs of funtion type
#
# @param a an expression which passes `is_function`
# @return an expression prepared for functional sequence construction.
prepare_function <- function(f) {
  as.call(list(f, quote(.)))
}

is_lambda <- function(expr) {
  is.call(expr) && identical(expr[[1L]], quote(`function`))
}