Primitive | R Documentation |
.Primitive
looks up by name a ‘primitive’
(internally implemented) function.
.Primitive(name)
name |
name of the R function. |
The advantage of .Primitive
over .Internal
functions is the potential efficiency of argument passing, and that
positional matching can be used where desirable, e.g. in
switch
. For more details, see the ‘R Internals’
manual.
All primitive functions are in the base namespace.
This function is almost never used: `name`
or, more carefully,
get(name, envir = baseenv())
work equally well and do
not depend on knowing which functions are primitive (which does change
as R evolves).
is.primitive
showing that primitive functions come in
two types (typeof
),
.Internal
.
mysqrt <- .Primitive("sqrt") c .Internal # this one *must* be primitive! `if` # need backticks
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