R/instances.R

In gnm: Generalized Nonlinear Models

#  Copyright (C) 2006 Heather Turner
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instances <- function(term, instances = 1){
    term <- match.call()$term
    if (!"inst" %in% names(formals(match.fun(eval(term[[1]])))))
        stop(deparse(term[[1]]), " has no inst argument")
    termList <- vector(mode = "list", length = instances)
    for (i in seq(instances)) {
        termList[[i]] <- term
        termList[[i]]$inst <- i
    }
    paste(unlist(termList), collapse = " + ")
}