On 9/14/06, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > > [...] > > > Ah, I'd forgotten about parse. A link from ?expression might be reasonable. > > But it says > > Details: > > 'Expression' here is not being used in its colloquial sense, that > of mathematical expressions. Those are calls (see 'call') in R, > and an R expression vector is a list of calls, typically as > returned by 'parse'. > > so it already has a link.
Right, I missed that (although I remember reading the first part of that paragraph). Deepayan > > 'Expression' was often misused in the R documentation, and a couple of > months ago I tried to move to a more careful usage. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
