On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 16:05 -0500, Jeffrey Horner wrote: > Forgive me, but since it's Friday and I've been thinking about command > line options lately, I thought I'd find out who came up with the name of > the --vanilla argument for R. From the svn log: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r2509 | maechler | 1998-10-10 10:52:53 -0500 (Sat, 10 Oct 1998) | 2 lines > Changed paths: > M /trunk/src/unix/system.c > > new --vanilla > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Are there any interesting anecdotes about this... Did Martin Maechler > name it? Certainly --plain could have been used instead... > > Jeff
Hey Jeff, I suppose that we should be glad that Martin was not eating Ben and Jerry's at the time or the command line might be: R --NewYorkSuperFudgeChunk® ;-) This reference might be of help: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=plain-vanilla Regards, Marc ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
