> -Original Message-
> From: William Dunlap
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:15 AM
> To: 'Sundar Dorai-Raj'; r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: RE: [Rd] update.formula and backticked colons
>
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> [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Sundar Dorai-Raj
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:28 PM
> To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Rd] update.formula and backticked colons
>
> I ju
You can always check the list archives (the ETHZ ones): it did make
it. See the thread starting at
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2009-July/054184.html
I need to look more carefully, but this is not what ... is documented
to do and it would need to be an extra argument for this method
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
>> I just noticed the following in update.formula and I'm wondering if
>> this behavior is the intention of the developers. Here's an example:
>>
>> update(`a: b` ~ x, ~ . + y)
>>
>>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
> I just noticed the following in update.formula and I'm wondering if
> this behavior is the intention of the developers. Here's an example:
>
> update(`a: b` ~ x, ~ . + y)
>
> Note now that the response has no backticks and is interpreted as
I just noticed the following in update.formula and I'm wondering if
this behavior is the intention of the developers. Here's an example:
update(`a: b` ~ x, ~ . + y)
Note now that the response has no backticks and is interpreted as a:b
(i.e. ":" is now an operator). This is because in update.formu
