John Chambers wrote:
> Designing a "better data frame" is something many people have likely
> thought about; I certainly have.
>
> But data frames are so widely used and so central to models and other
> software that a major change needs to be done by the user community, or
> at least with maximum
Designing a "better data frame" is something many people have likely
thought about; I certainly have.
But data frames are so widely used and so central to models and other
software that a major change needs to be done by the user community, or
at least with maximum feedback, IMO.
Also, my prio
> OTOH, it's interesting that some methods to "stick some S4
> objects into a data frame do work fine , at least for the
> following case (R-script below) -- and I wonder if we (R developers)
> shouldn't think about more explicitly supporting this,
> e.g., by stating something like
>
> >> If an S
Hi,
Martin Maechler wrote:
>> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:09:13 +0100 writes:
>
> Gregor> Ferdinand Alimadhi wrote:
>
> >> tmp$comp <- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?!
>
> Gregor> I "lose" class here and that is not what I
> Gregor>
> "Gregor" == Gregor Gorjanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:09:13 +0100 writes:
Gregor> Ferdinand Alimadhi wrote:
>> tmp$comp <- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?!
Gregor> I "lose" class here and that is not what I
Gregor> want. Perhaps I should stick with list inst
