Names of Greek letters stored as character strings; plotmath.
On 21/05/12 10:53, Robert Baer wrote:
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This discussion has been exceedingly helpful, sort of. Every time I try to do a task involving this I read the documentation for bquote(), expression(), plotmath(), etc., over and over, and I still fail to get the big picture of how R parses things under the hood. Typically, I only succeed each time by frustrating trial and error. Can I ask how you guys got a handle on the bigger (besides your usual brilliance <G>)? Is there more comprehensive documentation in the developer literature or is there a user wiki that you would recommend for those who never quite get the big picture? If not, this would be a worthy topic for an R Journal article if someone has knowledge and the time to do it. Wish I were knowledgeable enough to do it myself.
Amen. My experience/reaction exactly.
I think though that the concepts involved are really truly subtle and it may
be difficult for the brilliant guys to explain them in such a way that
those of
us who are less brilliant can understand them.
cheers,
Rolf