On 07 Sep 2014, at 00:31 , David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:

> The goal: 
>   to create a function modeled after `subset` (notorious for its non-standard 
> evaluation) that will take a series of logical tests as unqiuoted expressions 
> to be evaluated in the framework of a dataframe environment and return a 
> dataframe of logicals:
...

A belated peep from the author of subset(): Don't!

I think we learned the hard way by now that it is much easier to pass 
unevaluated expressions in the shape of formula objects or maybe expression 
objects. Lots of pain can be avoided by slipping in a simple "~".

-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd....@cbs.dk  Priv: pda...@gmail.com

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