If people are annoyed by the off-topic-ness, just let me know and I'll
take it off list. Also, I don't expect to necessarily convert anyone to
my point of view, but I would like to try and articulate it a bit better
(sorry for the length). More inline:
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 20:23 +0100, Hin-Tak
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:57 -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> If your Z in reality is not naturally numeric try representing it as a
> factor and using
> the numeric levels as your numbers and then put the level labels back on:
>
> m <- n <- 5
> DF <- data.frame(X = gl(m*n, 1), Y = gl(m, n), Z =
metime in the far future. I
don't exactly have a tenured position.
I really am trying to give at least as much as I'm taking; hopefully my
first email shows that I did a healthy bit of
thinking/reading/googling/coding before posting (maybe too much).
Apparently the c-solution isn't
Hello,
I'm mailing r-devel because I think the performance problem I'm having
is best solved by re-writing reshape() in C. I've been reading the
"writing R extensions" documentation and I have some questions about
they best way to write the C bits, but first let me describe my problem:
I'm tryin