[R] as.character(quote(x$y) ) = "$" "x" "y" not "x$y"?

[Bert Gunter]

... and

> str(quote(x$y))
 language x$y

> as.list(quote(x$y))
[[1]]
`$`

[[2]]
x

[[3]]
y

## may be instructive.

Cheers,
Bert




Bert Gunter
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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> deparse(quote(x$y))
> [1] "x$y"
>
> It looks like deparse does what you want here.
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Spencer Graves
> <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>> Hello, All:
>>
>>
>>       Is there a simple utility someplace to convert "quote(x$y)" to "x$y"?
>>
>>
>>       I ask, because as.character(quote(x$y)) is a character vector of
>> length 3 =  "$" "x" "y".  I want to convert this to "x$y" for a diagnostic
>> message.
>>
>>
>>       class(quote(x$y)) = "call", which suggests I could write
>> "as.character.call" to perform this function.  However, before I do, I felt
>> a need to ask for other thoughts on this.
>>
>>
>>       Thanks,
>>       Spencer
>>
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