[R] functions and strings

[Robin Hankin]

Hi Dmitris, Thierry,

I'm getting there but it's still not quite right if f() includes  
something like x^2:

f <- function(x){exp(x^2)}
>>

gsub("(x)", "(xyz)", deparse(body(f))[2], fixed = TRUE)


[1] "    x^2"

[I don't care about the spaces]



also,

  I can't quite see how to implement Thierry's suggestion about
changing the letter "x" into a letter that does not occur in f(),  
because of the
following example:

  f <- function(x){abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz(x^2)}




On 13 Sep 2006, at 09:08, Dimitris Rizopoulos wrote:

> yes you're right, maybe this is better
>
>> f <- function(x){sin(x)+exp(x)}
>> strng <- gsub("(x)", "(xyz)", deparse(body(f))[2], fixed = TRUE)
>> sub('^[[:space:]]+', '', strng)
> [1] "sin(xyz) + exp(xyz)"
>
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
>

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