On Wed, 09-Dec-2009 at 07:20PM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
|> There are a number of functions that are dispatched to from split().
|>
|> > methods('split')
|> [1] split.data.frame split.Date split.default split.POSIXct
|>
|> Is there a way to figure out which of these variants is actually
|> dispatched to when I call split? I know that if the argument is of the
|> type data.frame, split.data.frame will be called? Is it the case that
In R-speak, "class" would be a better word than "type".
|> if the argument is not of type data.frame, Date or POSIXct,
|> split.default will be called?
I think it's slightly more complicated than that, but you're more or
less on the right track.
HTH
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