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as.character.polynom

Polynomial coercion to character

Produce a text representation of a polynomial object

## S3 method for class 'polynom'
as.character(x, variable = "x", decreasing = FALSE, ...)

`x`	The polynomial object in question
`variable`	Character string: what variable name should be used?
`decreasing`	Logical: in decreasing powers or increasing powers?
`...`	Additional arguments (ignored as yet)

A character string representation of the polynomial

p <- poly_from_zeros(-2:3)
as.character(p, "z", FALSE)
as.character(p, "z", TRUE)
parse(text = as.character(p, "z", TRUE))[[1]]

Polynomials in R

v2.0-3

GPL-2

Authors

Bill Venables, with contribution by Kurt Hornik and Georgi Boshnakov

Initial release

2020-02-04