Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David A. van Leeuwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > i am working with large data frames with many dependend variables. I
> > want to write some functions that will allow me to quickly select
> > variables from the frame and plot them in various colors depending on
> > factor columns, possibly selecting rows according to factor
> > conditions. In order to do this in a nice function, i need to
> > understand how to work with a column name in the body of a
> > function. To simplify my problem, how do i write a function with a
> > body like
> >
> >
> > scatter.plot <- function (data, x, y) {
> > plot(data$x, data$y)
> > }
>
> Use
> plot(data[[x]], data[[y]])
> instead
The plot labels won't come out right then. I think David was
looking for something like
function(data, x, y)
eval(substitute(plot(x,y)), data)
or to be able to pass names:
function(data, x, y)
eval(substitute(plot(x,y),list(x=as.name(x), y=as.name(y))), data)
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