Hello, Apparently thanks to improvements to the R parser, this example from section 6.1 of the R Language Definition no longer holds. > deparse(quote(c(1, 2))) [1] "c(1, 2)" > deparse(1:2) [1] "c(1, 2)" Even running R-2.14.2, I get instead > deparse(1:2) [1] "1:2"