[R] match.call() and do.call()

[Peter Perkins]

hi all -

i have a function that needs to call glm() with a weights argument that
includes a variable whose name comes from the caller.  so instead of:

   fit <- glm(formula, poisson(), data, weights = 1-z, ...),

i do something like this:

   fit <- do.call("glm", list(formula=formula, family=poisson(),
      data=data, weights = call("-", 1, as.name(zname)), ...))

this works ok, but i find that the call component of the fit object
returned by glm() has taken things a bit too literally -- it has
literals for all of the args in the call, rather than variable and
function names as the object returned by the first form above would.  in
a simpler example, 

> fun <- function(x, f) print(match.call())
> xx <- 1:10
> fun(x, sum)
fun(x = x, f = sum)
> do.call("fun", list(x = xx, f = sum))
fun(x = c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), f = function (..., 
    na.rm = FALSE) 
.Internal(sum(..., na.rm = na.rm)))

this sure is ugly -- can anyone offer a way to get around it?  that is,
i'd like to have fit$call look like it would for a direct call to glm(),
with the user-supplied variable name nicely substituted into the
weights= arg.  as i understand it, i can't get around using do.call().

thanks for any help.

- peter
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