function vectors (was Re: [R] text() does not handle lists of expressions)

[Tamas Papp]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 07:50:07AM -0700, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> An expression is already a vector in this sense
> eg
>   plot(1:10)
>   text(c(4,2),c(2,4),labels=expression(a[1],b[2]))

Thanks (also to Deepayan Sarkar), now I see.  I have found
?character-class, and now I see that vectors can have a mode of
"expression", too.

Another (related) question: why aren't there vectors of
mode="function" in R?  Are they difficult to implement, not needed,
etc., what is the reason for their abscence?  I found that I can make
a vector of functions by using expression and then eval, so there is a
workaround, but I am just curious about this.

Thanks,

Tamas

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