On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Roger Koenker wrote:
> I'm in the very initial stage of expanding the formula processing
> in my quantile regression function rq() to handle additive
> nonparametric components, say qss(x), or qss(x,z). I need some
> advice about strategy for formula processing. My initial foray
> was to use:
>
> terms(formula,specials="qss")
>
> and then modify the components of the resulting
> terms.object.
Another approach, which you can see in coxph() in the survival package, is
to create a new formula without the qss terms. It's not very pretty but
it seems to work portably.
-thomas
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