I found there's a very good functional set of operations in R, such as
apply family, Hadley Wickham's lovely plyr, etc. There's even a
Reduce (a.k.a. fold). Now I wonder how can we do pattern-matching?
E.g., now I split dimensions like this:
m <- dim(V)[1] # R
n <- dim(V)[2] # still R
While even Matlab allows for
[m,n] = size(V) % MATLAB!
Ideally I'd be able to say,
<<x,y>> <- dim(V)
-- where <<.,.>> is some magic needed.
Similarly, to break lists, we'd need, in a MLish notation,
match L with
| head::tail => ...
| () => ;
What can be done in R now to simulate it, and/or how Rish is it to add
something like that?
Cheers,
Alexy
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