Greg Snow <greg.s...@imail.org> [Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 04:57:03PM CEST]: > You should also look at fortune(106) and think about possible other solutions > to your overall objective.
I am not installing fortune solely for this purpose but I understand that anything which smells like macro expansion is frowned upon in R circles. Yet there are situations where i want to treat code as data and data as code. As far as I gather this works only with closures in R, not with general S-expressions, so sometimes I have to resort to character strings. -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture mailto:johan...@huesing.name from such a trifling investment of fact. http://derwisch.wikidot.com (Mark Twain, "Life on the Mississippi") ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.