As far as I remember, this comes from S-PLUS, introduced around v.3 (white book?) or maybe v.4, and due to a desire to cut some Unix ties as MS-DOS was taking over the world. However, it was long ago, in a different world, and besides, S-PLUS is dead (mostly).
- Peter > On 4 Jan 2019, at 00:45 , Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I found out today (maybe I had known sometime before??) that objects() > is a synonym for ls(). I'm curious about the history, which seems to go > at least back to the beginning of R. It's been thus since SVN revision > 2 (Sep 1997) ... > > svn cat https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/base/R/attach@2 | > grep objects > > I had a quick look at the Becker & Chambers brown book (1984) and > Becker and Wilks blue book (1988) on Google books and could find ls but > not objects() ... ? > > Anyone happen to know? > > cheers > Ben Bolker > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
