From h.wickham at gmail.com  Tue Mar 31 16:26:15 2009
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (hadley wickham)
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:26:15 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Why does the lexical analyzer drop comments ?
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> At the moment, I am concentrating efforts deep down in the parser code, but
> there are other challenges:
> - once the expressions are parsed, we will need something that investigates
> to find evidence about function calls, to get an idea of where the function
> is defined (by the user, in a package, ...) . This is tricky, and unless you
> actually evaluate the code, there will be some errors made.

Are you aware of Luke Tierney's codetools package?  That would seem to
be the place to start.

Hadley

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[Rd] Why does the lexical analyzer drop comments ?
hadley wickham