Constructing quines (self-reproducing functions)

Question

Has anyone constructed a quine (\"A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output\": http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm) in R? (The [quine] ta

Answer 1

If you want a function that returns a function.....maybe this?

junk <- function(...) {
  function(...) {
    structure(junk(...))
  }
}

The output is:

> junk()

function(...) {
    structure(junk(...))
  }



> boo <- junk(999)
> boo

function(...) {
    structure(junk(...))
  }



>dput(boo)

function (...) 
{
    structure(junk(...))
}