On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > 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. >
Yes, I am sure. It's not that it is invalid to have a function as the first argument of substitute, it's that substitute() does not recurse into either the body or the formal arguments of the function (or into the environment, though no-one would expect that). -thomas ______________________________________________ [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