R: Get detailed parse information from object.

getParseData {utils} | R Documentation

## Get detailed parse information from object.

### Description

If the `"keep.source"` option is `TRUE`, R's parser will attach detailed information on the object it has parsed. These functions retrieve that information.

### Usage

    getParseData(x, includeText = NA)
    getParseText(parseData, id)

### Arguments

`x` | an expression returned from `parse`, or a function or other object with source reference information
`includeText` | logical; whether to include the text of parsed items in the result
`parseData` | a data frame returned from `getParseData`
`id` | a vector of item identifiers whose text is to be retrieved

### Details

In version 3.0.0, the R parser was modified to include code written by Romain Francois in his parser package. This constructs a detailed table of information about every token and higher level construct in parsed code. This table is stored in the `srcfile` record associated with source references in the parsed code, and retrieved by the `getParseData` function.

### Value

For `getParseData`:
If parse data is not present, `NULL`. Otherwise a data frame is returned, containing the following columns:

`line1` | integer. The line number where the item starts. This is the parsed line number called `"parse"` in `getSrcLocation`, which ignores
    #line
directives.
`col1` | integer. The column number where the item starts. The first character is column 1. This corresponds to `"column"` in `getSrcLocation`.
`line2` | integer. The line number where the item ends.
`col2` | integer. The column number where the item ends.
`id` | integer. An identifier associated with this item.
`parent` | integer. The `id` of the parent of this item.
`token` | character. The type of the token.
`terminal` | logical. Whether the token is “terminal”, i.e. a leaf in the parse tree.
`text` | character. If `includeText` is `TRUE`, the text of all tokens; if it is `NA` (the default), the text of terminal tokens. If `includeText == FALSE`, this column is not included.

The rownames of the data frame will be equal to the `id` values, and the data frame will have a `"srcfile"` attribute containing the `srcfile` record which was used. The rows will be ordered by starting position within the source file, with parent items occurring before their children.

For `getParseText`:
A character vector of the same length as `id` containing the associated text items. If they are not included in `parseData`, they will be retrieved from the original file.

### Note

There are a number of differences in the results returned by `getParseData` relative to those in the original parser code:

- Fewer columns are kept.

- The internal token number is not returned.

- `col1` starts counting at 1, not 0.

- The `id` values are not attached to the elements of the parse tree, they are only retained in the table returned by `getParseData`.

-     #line

  directives are identified, but other comment markup (e.g., roxygen comments) are not.

### Author(s)

Duncan Murdoch

### References

Romain Francois (2012). parser: Detailed R source code parser. R package version 0.0-16. https://github.com/halpo/parser.

### See Also

`parse`, `srcref`

### Examples

    fn <- function(x) {
      x + 1 # A comment, kept as part of the source
    }

    d <- getParseData(fn)
    if (!is.null(d)) {
      plus <- which(d$token == "'+'")
      sum <- d$parent[plus]
      print(d[as.character(sum),])
      print(getParseText(d, sum))
    }

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