[R] "dump" Splus -> R

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Gregory R. Warnes" <warnes at biostat.washington.edu> writes:

> I think it is a good idea to put "substitute" (the synonym for quote)
> around the call objects when deparsing.  Splus restores correctly with
> the calls encapsulated in a substitute(...), as does R. 

Whoah! Watchit. Substitute is *not* a synonym for quote. 

>  (function(){a<-5;substitute(a+b)})()
5 + b
>  (function(){a<-5;quote(a+b)})()
a + b
> quote
function(x)
substitute(x)

(in Splus *and* R)

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