... and > str(quote(x$y)) language x$y
> as.list(quote(x$y)) [[1]] `$` [[2]] x [[3]] y ## may be instructive. Cheers, Bert Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics (650) 467-7374 "Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. And knowledge is certainly not wisdom." H. Gilbert Welch On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> wrote: >> deparse(quote(x$y)) > [1] "x$y" > > It looks like deparse does what you want here. > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Spencer Graves > <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: >> Hello, All: >> >> >> Is there a simple utility someplace to convert "quote(x$y)" to "x$y"? >> >> >> I ask, because as.character(quote(x$y)) is a character vector of >> length 3 = "$" "x" "y". I want to convert this to "x$y" for a diagnostic >> message. >> >> >> class(quote(x$y)) = "call", which suggests I could write >> "as.character.call" to perform this function. However, before I do, I felt >> a need to ask for other thoughts on this. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Spencer >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > 538...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
