I am trying to understand how to write an "advanced" function. To do so, I am
examining the lm fucnction, a portion of which is pasted below. I am unable to
understand what match.call or match does, and several other parts of lm, even
when I read the help page for match.call or match.
(1) can someone point me to an explanation of match.call or match that can be
understood by the uninitiated?
(2) can someone point me to a document that will help me learn how to write an
"advanced" function?
Thank you,
John
> lm
function (formula, data, subset, weights, na.action, method = "qr",
model = TRUE, x = FALSE, y = FALSE, qr = TRUE, singular.ok = TRUE,
contrasts = NULL, offset, ...)
{
ret.x <- x
ret.y <- y
cl <- match.call()
mf <- match.call(expand.dots = FALSE)
m <- match(c("formula", "data", "subset", "weights", "na.action",
"offset"), names(mf), 0L)
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