> > In addition, c() has always had a double meaning of
> > (a) turning an object into a simple "vector" (an object
> > without "attributes"), as in
> > > c(factor(c("Cat","Dog","Cat")))
> > [1] 1 2 1
> > > c(data.frame(x=1:2,y=c("Dog","Cat")))
> > $x
> > [1] 1 2
> >
> > $y
> > [1] Dog Cat
> > Levels: Cat Dog
>
> To my surprise that was not documented at all on the R help page, and I've
> clarified it. (BTW, at least in R it does not remove names, just all
> other attributes.)
It does not remove names in Splus either, just all
other attributes. I see c() used in several Splus
functions as a way to convert a matrix into a vector
(by removing the .Dims and .Dimnames attributes).
> I think working on a concat() for R would be helpful. I vaguely recalled
> something like it in the Green Book, but the index does not help (but then
> it is not very complete).
Splus does have a concat(). I believe it is modelled
after the Green Book example. It uses a helper function
called concat.two(x,y) with is generic and has 2 arguments
to make it easer to write methods for. concat(x,y,z)
calls concat.two(concat.two(x,y),z). concat() is not used much,
but it is the Summary group functions: min, max, sum, etc.
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