as.character.polynom {PolynomF}R Documentation

Coerce polynomial object to character

Description

Coerces a polynom object to a printable character representation.

Usage

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

Arguments

x A polynom object
variable Character string with the desired variable name.
decreasing Should the powers be decreasing, or increasing as in power series form?
... Not presently used

Details

The character string may be parsed into an expression for the polynomial itself.

Value

A character string.

Author(s)

Bill Venables, with contributions from Kurt Hornik

References

None

Examples

p <- poly.from.zeros(-2:4)
as.character(p)
# "48*x - 28*x^2 - 56*x^3 + 35*x^4 + 7*x^5 - 7*x^6 + x^7"


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