In the case of power.t.test, there is a situation where you want to create 4
different functions with the same function body, in order to pass them to
uniroot(). I think that at the time, it just seemed convenient to express that
idea with a quote-eval (macro-like) construction, rather than figu
On 11/07/2023 6:01 p.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
In a few places in the R source code, such as the $initialize element
of `family` objects, and in the body of power.t.test() (possibly other
power.* functions), sets of instructions that will need to be run later
are encapsulated by saving them as an
In a few places in the R source code, such as the $initialize element
of `family` objects, and in the body of power.t.test() (possibly other
power.* functions), sets of instructions that will need to be run later
are encapsulated by saving them as an expression and later applying
eval(), rath
