itsadug (version 2.3)

convertNonAlphanumeric: Prepare string for regular expressions (backslash for all non-letter and non-digit characters)

Description

Prepare string for regular expressions (backslash for all non-letter and non-digit characters)

Usage

convertNonAlphanumeric(text)

Arguments

text

A text string (smooth term label) that needs to be converted to a regular expression.

Value

A regular expression string.

See Also

Other Utility functions: diff_terms, find_difference, missing_est, print_summary, summary_data, timeBins

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(simdat)
# Model for illustrating coefficients:
m0 <- bam(Y ~ s(Time) + s(Subject, bs='re') 
+ s(Time, Subject, bs='re'), data=simdat)

# get all coefficients:
coef(m0)
# to get only the Subject intercepts:
coef(m0)[grepl(convertNonAlphanumeric("s(Subject)"), names(coef(m0)))]
# to get only the Subject slopes:
coef(m0)[grepl(convertNonAlphanumeric("s(Time,Subject)"), names(coef(m0)))]

# }