Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
> In S3 if you are passing an evaluated formula to another function that
> will store it and use it in printing (such as a model-fitting function),
you
> usually want to unclass the formula. Otherwise, the formula that gets
> stored looks very ugly when printed. A trick to do the unclassing is to
pass
> form = c( myFormula )
> In R this has the effect of making form a list rather than a call. It
> seems that passing
> form = as.vector( myFormula )
> will work in both dialects. Anyone else have experience with this?
Apparently
(a) R does not print the class on a formula (because print.formula
unclasses it)
(b) as.vector does not unclass in R but does in S3. Try
class(as.vector(form))
So the result of as.vector *looks* alike, but isn't. Smells like
trouble...
Whatever is wrong with using unclass() for unclassing anyway??
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