Barry Rowlingson wrote: [...]
> I suspect it's using 'deparse()' to get the character representation. > This function is mentioned in ?as.character, but as.character.default > disappears into the infernal .Internal and I don't have time to chase > source code - it's sunny outside! > on the side, as.character triggers do_ascharacter, which in turn calls DispatchOrEval, a function with the following beautiful comment: "To call this an ugly hack would be to insult all existing ugly hacks at large in the world." a fortune? vQ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel