Question

要临时编辑已打包函数func的正文，我经常使用trace(func, edit=TRUE)。出于某种原因，当func为[.data.table时，R不允许我这样做：

## Note: In this and the other cases below, once an editor pops up, I save and 
## and then exit without making any edits to the function. The commented-out
## message below each call to trace() is what is then printed to my R console.

trace("[.data.table", where=data.table, edit=TRUE)
# Error in .makeTracedFunction(def, tracer, exit, at, print, doEdit) : 
#   the editing in trace() can only change the body of the function, not 
#   the arguments or defaults

问题：可能导致此错误的原因是什么？还有哪些其他功能会触发它？对于这样的函数，是否有一些替代解决方法可以让我编辑它们？

FWIW，这似乎不是 data.table 命名空间中的函数的一般问题（参见下面的#1），也不是子集方法的问题一般（见下文#2）。

## (#1)     
trace("within.data.table", where=data.table, edit=TRUE)
# Tracing function "within.data.table" as seen from package "data.table"
# [1] "within.data.table"

## (#2)
trace("[.Date", edit=TRUE)
# Tracing function "[.Date" in package "base"
# [1] "[.Date"

我在Windows XP计算机上运行R-3.0.0和data.table_1.8.8，无论是使用set options(editor="emacs")，options(editor="notepad")还是使用R GUI的默认编辑器，都会出现相同的错误

Answer 1

这显然是由于最近在{}的正式参数列表中的一个地方添加了花括号（即data.table）。

首先，MRE显示大括号确实导致trace(..., edit=TRUE)窒息：

## Without braces, no problem
func <- function(inColor=FALSE, col = if(inColor) "red" else "grey") { 
    plot(rnorm(99), col=col)}

trace(func, edit=TRUE)
# [1] "func"


## With braces, tracing fails
funcB <- function(inColor=FALSE, col = if(inColor) "red" else {"grey"}) { 
    plot(rnorm(99), col=col)}

trace(funcB, edit=TRUE)
# Error in .makeTracedFunction(def, tracer, exit, at, print, doEdit) : 
#   the editing in trace() can only change the body of the function, not 
#   the arguments or defaults

然后，为了记录，这里是版本1.8.6中[.data.table的正式（跟踪工作）和版本1.8.8（它不支持）：

## Version 1.8.6 -- Tracing worked
function (x, i, j, by, keyby, with=TRUE, nomatch=getOption("datatable.nomatch"), 
    mult="all", roll=FALSE, rolltolast=FALSE, 
    which=FALSE, .SDcols, verbose=getOption("datatable.verbose"), drop=NULL)


## Version 1.8.8 -- Tracing doesn't (See {} in the 'rollends' argument)
function (x, i, j, by, keyby, with=TRUE, nomatch=getOption("datatable.nomatch"), 
    mult = "all", roll = FALSE, 
    rollends = if (roll == "nearest") c(TRUE, 
        TRUE) else {
        if (roll >= 0) 
            c(FALSE, TRUE)
        else c(TRUE, FALSE)
    }, 
    which = FALSE, .SDcols, verbose = getOption("datatable.verbose"), 
    allow.cartesian = getOption("datatable.allow.cartesian"), 
    drop = NULL, rolltolast = FALSE)

为什么当...... = [.data.table时，trace（...，edit = TRUE）不起作用

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