Any way to access function installed by makeActiveBinding?

Question

The title basically says it all.

If I do this ...

makeActiveBinding("x", function() runif(2), .GlobalEnv)
x
# [1] 0.7332872 0.4707796
x
# [1] 0.5500310 0.5013099

... is there then any way for me to examine x to learn what function it is linked to (and if not, why not)?

(In this case, I'd like to be able to learn that x was defined to be function() runif(2).)

Answer 1

With a bit of noodling around in envir.c, I can get this to work:

#include <Rcpp.h>
using namespace Rcpp ;

#define HASHSIZE(x)      LENGTH(x)
#define HASHVALUE(x)    TRUELENGTH(x)

// [[Rcpp::export]]
SEXP get_binding_fun( std::string name, Environment env){
    SEXP symbol = Rf_install( name.c_str() );
    SEXP tab = HASHTAB(env) ;
    SEXP c = PRINTNAME(symbol);

    // finding the hash code for the symbol
    int hashcode = HASHVALUE(c) % HASHSIZE(tab);

    // get the value there from the hash table
    SEXP res = CAR( VECTOR_ELT(tab, hashcode ) ) ;

    return res ;
}

Save this into a .cpp file, sourceCpp it and use it with this R code:

> makeActiveBinding("x", function() runif(2), .GlobalEnv)
> get_binding_fun("x", .GlobalEnv)
# function ()
# runif(2)