On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> wrote:
> "On average, any data manipulation that can be described in a sentence or
> two of English can be programmed in one line in R. If you find yourself
> writing a long 'for' loop to do something that sounds simple, take a step
> back and research if an existing combination of functions can easily handle
> your request."
>
I've already fallen in this trap. A couple hours of reading Rnews on
the apply() family would have saved me a month or so of for()
programming.
Liviu

______________________________________________
R-help@r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Reply via email to