This is not a bug. The object passed to `main' should be either character or an
expression (documented in ?title). substitute() returns neither a character
object nor an expression -- it return a call object. This is documented in
?substitute:
Substituting and quoting often causes confu
Peter Dunn wrote:
Hi all
I am having troubles making sense of why code (1)
below fails but code (2) below works.
Code (1):
> phi.1 <- 1
> plot(0 ~ 0,
+ main=substitute(paste("A vaue for ",phi," = ",phival),
list(phival=phi.1)) )
Error in paste("The two deviances for ", phi, " = ", 2) :
Hi all
I am having troubles making sense of why code (1)
below fails but code (2) below works.
Code (1):
> phi.1 <- 1
> plot(0 ~ 0,
+ main=substitute(paste("A vaue for ",phi," = ",phival),
list(phival=phi.1)) )
Error in paste("The two deviances for ", phi, " = ", 2) :
Object "phi" not fou
