[Rd] Creating functions programmatically

[Hadley Wickham]

> There is:  it is `function`.  The parser converts your function definitions
> into a call to it.  (It has 3 arguments: the formals, the body, and the
> srcref.  The environment is added when it is evaluated.)
>
> So your make_function below is pretty similar (but because `function` is
> primitive, some of the evaluation rules might be different).

Hmm, I thought I had it working, but now I can't figure out the
arguments to `function`:

> `function`(NULL,NULL)
function ()
NULL

> `function`(alist(a = 1), NULL)
Error: invalid formal argument list for "function"

I'm obviously missing something dumb.

Thanks!

Hadley

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