[R] formula argument evaluation

[Richard M. Heiberger]

Would making it regular function %=>%, using "%" instead of quotes,
work for you?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Adrian Dușa <dusa.adrian at unibuc.ro> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> It never gets to evaluating it.  It is not a legal R statement, so the
> parser signals an error.
>> If you want to pass arbitrary strings to a function, you need to put them
> in quotes.
>
> I see. I thought it was parsed inside the function, but if it's parsed
> before then quoting is the only option.
>
>
> To Keith: no, I mean it like this "A + B => C" which is translated as:
> "the union of A and B is sufficient for C" in set theoretic language.
>
> The "=>" operator means sufficiency, while "<=" means necessity. Quoting
> the expression is good enough, I was just curious if the quotes could be
> made redundant, somehow.
>
> Thank you both,
> Adrian
>
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