[Bioc-devel] Adding a lengths() method to List class
The plan is to move to only having lengths().
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Cook, Malcolm <MEC at stowers.org> wrote:
Dumb question (?) follows in line:
That is the plan. Note that we already have elementLengths() that serves
the
> same purpose. It was the direct inspiration for lengths().
Why have both?
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Peter Hickey <peter.hickey at gmail.com> > wrote: >
> > The lengths() function was added in R 3.2 to "get the length of each > > element of a list or atomic vector (is.atomic) as an integer or > > numeric vector." It seems useful to me to have also a similar method > > defined for the S4Vectors::List class (and subclasses). What do
others think?