basic-aliases: Lisp-friendly basic aliases

In wwbrannon/schemeR: Ports of Lisp/Scheme Features to R

Description

These functions and other objects make things that are already available in base R available under their traditional names in Scheme and other Lisp dialects., and in some cases provide syntactic names for R operators that would otherwise have to be backtick-quoted. See 'Details' for a full list.

Usage

display(x, ...)

progn(...)

begin(...)

fromPkg(pkg, name)

is.nil(x)

is.procedure(x)

is.boolean(x)

nil

Arguments

x	An object.
...	Further arguments to pass to aliased base R functions.
pkg	The package fromPkg should look in.
name	The name of the object fromPkg should look for.

Details

The aliases defined are:

• display is an alias for print

• progn is an alias for {

• begin is an alias for {

• fromPkg is an alias for ::

• is.nil is an alias for is.null

• is.procedure is an alias for is.function

• is.boolean is an alias for is.logical

• nil is an alias for NULL

See the respective help pages for the base names for more details.

Value

Return values are as for the aliased base functions.

wwbrannon/schemeR documentation built on May 4, 2019, 12:03 p.m.