Re: [R] Coding problem: How can I extract substring of function call within the function

2009-08-14 Thread Martin Maechler
[mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thu 8/13/2009 5:19 PM To: Pitt, Joel Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Coding problem: How can I extract substring of function call within the function The Defaults package can be used to change the defaults of functions

[R] Coding problem: How can I extract substring of function call within the function

2009-08-13 Thread Pitt, Joel
In order to ease my students into the R environment I am developing a package which installs a variety of utility functions as well as slightly modified versions of some standard R functions -- e.g. mean, hist, barplot, In my versions of these standard R functions I either add options or

Re: [R] Coding problem: How can I extract substring of function call within the function

2009-08-13 Thread Erik Iverson
13, 2009 3:48 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Coding problem: How can I extract substring of function call within the function In order to ease my students into the R environment I am developing a package which installs a variety of utility functions as well as slightly modified

Re: [R] Coding problem: How can I extract substring of function call within the function

2009-08-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The Defaults package can be used to change the defaults of functions and reset them back. There is some question on whether all this is advisable. It will invalidate any books, documentation, examples in the help files that come with R and other resources on R that they might have otherwise used

Re: [R] Coding problem: How can I extract substring of function call within the function

2009-08-13 Thread Pitt, Joel
for exploratory data analysis I prefer to avoid the menu driven detour. Regards, Joel From: Gabor Grothendieck [mailto:ggrothendi...@gmail.com] Sent: Thu 8/13/2009 5:19 PM To: Pitt, Joel Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Coding problem: How can I extract