Adrian Baddeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gReetings, > > I want to manipulate a formula object, containing the name "." > so that "." is replaced by a desired (arbitrary) expression. > What is a safe way to do this?
I'm not vouching for the safety, but something along the lines of mycall <- quote(a+b) # NOT mode "expression" substitute(~., list(.=mycall)) or (this stuff is such a pain) eval(substitute(substitute(formula, list(.=mycall)), list=myformula)) Notice, BTW, that formulas can have "." on both sides, so you may want to do it only to either the LHS or RHS as appropriate. Also note that the substitute operations loses the the class and environment of the original, so you may need to put that back in place with as.formula and environment<- -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
