month.day.year takes a chron object and produces a list with three components named month, day and year. with executes its second argument in an environment where the components of the list of the first argument are variables so arg 2 can refer to the names month, day and year.
--- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:03:59 +0530 From: Ajay Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [R] Find out the day of week for a chron object? [...] Could someone give me a glimmer into HOW and WHY that expression with(month.day.year(x), day.of.week(month,day,year)) works? :-) -- Ajay Shah Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economic Affairs http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah Ministry of Finance, New Delhi ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
