[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > x <- do.call("table", c(as.list(substitute(list(...)))[-1], > list(exclude = exclude))) > > I think this call is finding the local variable "x" (which has been > used before this line) instead of the argument "x" and thus produces > an incorrect result. > > How should this be fixed? What we want is to convert "..." into an > evaluated list that includes the deparsed arguments as names. Just > plain list(...) loses the names.
The knee-jerk reflex on seeing substitute() with ... or formal arguments is that you need eval.parent somewhere since the names or expressions passed to a function usually make better sense to the parent than they do to the current function. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel