bquote: Partial substitution in expressions

In robertzk/monadicbase: The R Base Package

Description

An analogue of the LISP backquote macro. bquote quotes its argument except that terms wrapped in .() are evaluated in the specified where environment.

Usage

bquote(expr, where = parent.frame())

Arguments

expr	A language object.
where	An environment.

Value

A language object.

See Also

quote, substitute

Examples

require(graphics)

a <- 2

bquote(a == a)
quote(a == a)

bquote(a == .(a))
substitute(a == A, list(A = a))

plot(1:10, a*(1:10), main = bquote(a == .(a)))

## to set a function default arg
default <- 1
bquote( function(x, y = .(default)) x+y )

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