[resent the next day, after not appearing on the list]
Peter, thank you for the explanation. This is indeed what is happening.
Might I suggest the following passage for inclusion in the help page for
"function", and possibly also "body", in the DETAILS or WARNING section:
"Note that the text o
Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why is the body of the function "X" when I substituted a different
> expression for X? Also, given that the body of the function is X, how
> does the function evaluate to TRUE since X is not defined anywhere
> (except in a list that should have been discard
I was trying to create a function with a value computed at creation time,
using substitute(), but I got results I don't understand:
> this.is.R
Error: Object "this.is.R" not found
> substitute(this.is.R <- function() X,
list(X=!is.null(options("CRAN")[[1]])))
this.is.R <- function() TRUE
> # the
