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I haven't yet dug into the internals of match() yet to see what's
going on, but I'm wondering whether there's a design reason why I
can't use %in% (which is a wrapper for match()) on language objects.
I'd like to test whether a language object is in a list of language
objects, but I get the error "'match' requires vector arguments":
specials <- c("foo","bar")
spList <- lapply(specials,as.name) ## convert to language objects
"a" %in% spList ## works (FALSE)
spList[[1]] %in% spList ## 'match' requires vector arguments
quote(foo) %in% spList ## ditto
quote(foo) == spList[[1]] ## TRUE
obviously I can go the other way, converting my target into text:
deparse(spList[[1]]) %in% specials ## TRUE
I could also write my own function to loop through the list and stop
when I find it. But I'd prefer to use built-in functionality if possible.
Does anyone have any clues/see what I'm missing?
cheers
Ben Bolker
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