Indeed, when I was writing code in Java or VBA and I needed code, say to
buble sort or invert a CDF, I could find many examples on the web since the
user base was so large. R has something better: CRAN. It was really smart
to make a central repository where useRs can share code. No other languag
How do people even notice stuff like this. You would never hard-coding
(-2)^2 or -2^2 anyway. The part being squared would be a variable, in which
case it works correctly:
> a<- -2
> a
[1] -2
> a^2
[1] 4
Sometimes it seems that people go looking for bugs... and therefore see bugs
all around them
I didn't know there was a language called American, I thought I spoke
English too, even if mine does not sound as eloquent... This thread
should provide credit to the R Core Team for bringing R to such a
level of perfection that these are types of bug reports submitted now
adays. Microsoft is sti
