Just a note to point out that Martin's R implementation of APL's "take" function was pretty neat. Could we preserve it for posterity somewhere in the R distribution? Failing that, it would complement subsums() of the magic package very nicely.
<mustn't flame APL....[holds head].....no flaming allowed........> best wishes Robin On 15 Jul 2005, at 14:14, Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>> "bry" == bry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:16:46 +0200 writes: >>>>>> > > bry> About a year ago there was a discussion about interfacing > R with J on the J > bry> forum, the best method seemed to be that outlined in this > vector article > bry> http://www.vector.org.uk/archive/v194/finn194.htm > > (which is interesting to see for me, > if I had known that my posted functions would make it to an APL > workshop... > BTW: Does one need special plugins / fonts to properly view > the APL symbols ? ) > > > bry> and use J instead of APL > > bry> http://www.jsoftware.com > > well, I've learned about J as the ASCII-variant of APL, and APL > used to be my first `beloved' computer language (in high school!) > -- but does J really provide computer algebra in the sense of > Maxima , Maple or yacas... ?? > > (and no, please refrain from flame wars about APL vs .. vs .., > it's hard to refrain for me, too...) > > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Robin Hankin Uncertainty Analyst National Oceanography Centre, Southampton European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK tel 023-8059-7743 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
