This isn't at all an urgent practical question, but recently while
exploring the details of how R formulas are interpreted, I learned of
this funny special case for how / interacts with +. In all of the
following cases, the multiplication-like operator simply distributes
over addition:
(a + b):c
The / is used for nesting and is defined by
A/B == A + (B %in% A)
thus
(a+b)/c == (a+b) + c %in% (a+b) == a + b + a:b:c
Rich
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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM, RICHARD M. HEIBERGER r...@temple.edu wrote:
The / is used for nesting and is defined by
A/B == A + (B %in% A)
thus
(a+b)/c == (a+b) + c %in% (a+b) == a + b + a:b:c
...I guess I could then ask why %in% is defined that way, but actually
this rephrasing somehow
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