Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:56:59 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > (1) One can either pick apart the function using body, or > > Actually, I think this is fairly natural -- it is only body(f) > that is an > expression. Certainly substitute() could have been written to > operate on > functions as well, but it wasn't.
In the context of R, natural is performing operations on whole objects at once. Its the same difference as indexing vs. vector operations. I am not sure where this came from about not operating on functions. Are you sure? I know just about everyone is saying this but the help page does not refer to that and the example I gave where we do use list(f=f) for f a function does seem to expand properly (see my last posting) although the subsitution never appears to take effect. ______________________________________________ [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
