Barry Rowlingson wrote: > > Computer scientists will write their beautiful manuscripts, but how > many people who come to R because they want to do a t-test or fit a > GLM will read them? That's the R-help audience now. >
don't forget that r seems to take, maybe undeserved, the pride of being a functional programming language. it has apparently been designed by people who don't think implementing cs guys' ideas is necessarily a bad idea. you do have lapply & co in r, not without a purpose. certainly not to just please computer scientists. vQ ______________________________________________ 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.