R: Quosure getters, setters and testers

quosure {rlang}

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Quosure getters, setters and testers

Description

You can access the quosure components (its expression and its environment) with:

get_expr() and get_env(). These getters also support other kinds of objects such as formulas
quo_get_expr() and quo_get_env(). These getters only work with quosures and throw an error with other types of input.

Test if an object is a quosure with is_quosure(). If you know an object is a quosure, use the quo_ prefixed predicates to check its contents, quo_is_missing(), quo_is_symbol(), etc.

Usage

is_quosure(x)

quo_is_missing(quo)

quo_is_symbol(quo, name = NULL)

quo_is_call(quo, name = NULL, n = NULL, ns = NULL)

quo_is_symbolic(quo)

quo_is_null(quo)

quo_get_expr(quo)

quo_get_env(quo)

quo_set_expr(quo, expr)

quo_set_env(quo, env)

is_quosures(x)

Arguments

`x`	An object to test.
`quo`	A quosure to test.
`name`	The name of the symbol or function call. If `NULL` the name is not tested.
`n`	An optional number of arguments that the call should match.
`ns`	The namespace of the call. If `NULL`, the namespace doesn't participate in the pattern-matching. If an empty string `""` and `x` is a namespaced call, `is_call()` returns `FALSE`. If any other string, `is_call()` checks that `x` is namespaced within `ns`.
`expr`	A new expression for the quosure.
`env`	A new environment for the quosure.

Empty quosures

When missing arguments are captured as quosures, either through enquo() or quos(), they are returned as an empty quosure. These quosures contain the missing argument and typically have the empty environment as enclosure.

Life cycle

is_quosure() is stable.
quo_get_expr() and quo_get_env() are stable.
is_quosureish() is deprecated as of rlang 0.2.0. This function assumed that quosures are formulas which is currently true but might not be in the future.

Examples

quo <- quo(my_quosure)
quo


# Access and set the components of a quosure:
quo_get_expr(quo)
quo_get_env(quo)

quo <- quo_set_expr(quo, quote(baz))
quo <- quo_set_env(quo, empty_env())
quo

# Test wether an object is a quosure:
is_quosure(quo)

# If it is a quosure, you can use the specialised type predicates
# to check what is inside it:
quo_is_symbol(quo)
quo_is_call(quo)
quo_is_null(quo)

# quo_is_missing() checks for a special kind of quosure, the one
# that contains the missing argument:
quo()
quo_is_missing(quo())

fn <- function(arg) enquo(arg)
fn()
quo_is_missing(fn())

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