To: "Gregory R. Warnes" <warnes@biostat.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [R] "dump" Splus -> R
From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 01 Apr 1999 14:14:40 +0200
In-Reply-To: "Gregory R. Warnes"'s message of "Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:49:20 -0800 (PST)"
"Gregory R. Warnes" <warnes@biostat.washington.edu> writes:
> I think it is a good idea to put "substitute" (the synonym for quote)
> around the call objects when deparsing. Splus restores correctly with
> the calls encapsulated in a substitute(...), as does R.
Whoah! Watchit. Substitute is *not* a synonym for quote.
> (function(){a<-5;substitute(a+b)})()
5 + b
> (function(){a<-5;quote(a+b)})()
a + b
> quote
function(x)
substitute(x)
(in Splus *and* R)
-- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._