On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Charles C. Berry <cbe...@tajo.ucsd.edu>wrote:
> >> Note: >> >> i <- 20 >>> bquote(y ~ poly(x,.(i))) >>> >> y ~ poly(x, 20) >> >> I see it now. bquote(y~poly(x,.(i))) gets it's 'i' there and then, sticks it in the returned expression as the value '20', so any further evaluations get poly(x,20). This is reminiscent of the way macro languages work... Thanks, Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.