[R] functions and strings

[Dimitris Rizopoulos]

one approach could be the following

strng <- gsub("x", "xyz", deparse(body(f))[2])
sub('^[[:space:]]+', '', strng)


I hope it helps.

Best,
Dimitris

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robin Hankin" <r.hankin at noc.soton.ac.uk>
To: <R-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:10 AM
Subject: [R] functions and strings


> Hi
>
> If
>
> string <- "xyz"
> f <- function(x){1 + sin(cos(x)) + exp(x^2)}
>
> How do I manipulate "string" and f() to give the string
>
> "1 + sin(cos(xyz)) + exp(xyz^2)"
>
> ?
>
>
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