How do you prove usefulness of a feature?
Do you have an example of a feature that has been added after proving to be
useful in the package space first?
Thank you,
Morgan
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 13:53 Michael Lawrence, <lawrence.michael at gene.com>
wrote:
Thanks for this interesting suggestion, Morgan. While there is no strict
criteria for base R inclusion, one criterion relevant in this case is
the usefulness of a feature be proven in the package space first.
Michael
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 5:19 AM Morgan Morgan <morgan.emailbox at gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:45 Duncan Murdoch, <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:
On 11/10/2019 6:44 a.m., Morgan Morgan wrote:
Hi All,
I was looking for a function to find a small matrix inside a larger
in R similar to the one described in the following link:
I couldn't find anything.
The above function can be seen as a "generalisation" of the "which"
function as well as the function described in the following post:
Would be possible to add such a function to base R?
I am happy to work with someone from the R core team (if you wish)
suggest an implementation in C.
That seems like it would sometimes be a useful function, and maybe
someone will point out a package that already contains it. But if
why would it belong in base R?
If someone already implemented it, that would great indeed. I think it
a
very general and basic function, hence base R could be a good place for
it?
But this is probably not a good reason; maybe someone from the R core
can shed some light on how they decide whether or not to include a
function
in base R?
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