Hi,
Firstly, I'd recommend using '<-' for assignment, rather than '='; it saves
confusion
Secondly, I don't think you want 'a*x+b' as a formula, I think you want an
expression.
Thirdly, your 'y' has only one term, a 9 character constant = "a * x + b"
Consider instead,
y <- expression(a*x+b)
a <- 2
b <- 3
x <- 1:10
y
eval(y)
Now, how to replace 'x' by 'w'?
I'm not an expert, but this is the kind of thing I need to do, so I'd
welcome criticism of my approach.
I would view the expression as a list:
as.list(y)
as.list(y[[1]])
So y is an expression containing a sub-expression; that is y is '(a*x) + b'
You want to access the sub-expression 'a*x'
y[[1]][[2]]
as.list(y[[1]][[2]])
Now you want to replace the third item in that sub-expression with the name
(not the character) w
y[[1]][[2]][[3]] <- as.name("w")
w <- 11:20
y
eval(y)
hth
Keith J
P.S. Perhaps you really do want a formula; y ~ a*x+b ??
In that case I'd still probably manipulate it as a list.
-------------------------------------------
"Christoph Scherber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dear all,
>
> How can I replace text in objects that are of class "formula"?
>
> y="a * x + b"
> class(y)="formula"
> grep("x",y)
> y[1]
>
> Suppose I would like to replace the "x" by "w" in the formula object "y".
>
> How can this be done? Somehow, the methods that can be used in character
> objects do not work 1:1 in formula objects...
>
> Many thanks and best wishes
> Christoph
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. rer.nat. Christoph Scherber
> University of Goettingen
> DNPW, Agroecology
> Waldweg 26
> D-37073 Goettingen
> Germany
>
> phone +49 (0)551 39 8807
> fax +49 (0)551 39 8806
>
> Homepage http://www.gwdg.de/~cscherb1
______________________________________________
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.
