S-PLUS took it from S, sometime in the early 1990's. The "White Book"
("Statistical Models in S", Chambers and Hastie, eds.,1992), uses objects()
on p.88..
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 4:47 PM Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> As far as I remember, this comes from
As far as I remember, this comes from S-PLUS, introduced around v.3 (white
book?) or maybe v.4, and due to a desire to cut some Unix ties as MS-DOS was
taking over the world. However, it was long ago, in a different world, and
besides, S-PLUS is dead (mostly).
- Peter
> On 4 Jan 2019, at 00:4
I found out today (maybe I had known sometime before??) that objects()
is a synonym for ls(). I'm curious about the history, which seems to go
at least back to the beginning of R. It's been thus since SVN revision
2 (Sep 1997) ...
svn cat https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/base/R/
