R-alpha: A Couple of Queries
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Ross Ihaka wrote:
I have not done anything about name-space clutter, but I have a couple of ideas on name hiding which might be possible ( basically, every library would have to "export" the names it wanted to be visible to users).
This is certainly nice in principle, though not tremendously important at the moment. It would be convenient to be able to declare functions in a library that are global to the library but not accessible to the outside world.
2) I am going ahead with implementing saving and restoring of data in XDR format, so that there will be less trouble with heterogeneous Unix networks. Because the format of saved files will change, we must either be incompatible or have some mechanism for restoring old save files. I would rather avoid the compatibility route if possible. Would anyone be seriously inconvenienced if old data files could not be restored? (Its not hard to build in compatibility, it would just take time which could be spend elsewhere).
For my purposes dump() will work fine for transferring old data files. Will the changes give cross-platform (Mac/Win) portability too? Thomas Lumley ------------------------------------------------------+------ Biostatistics : "Never attribute to malice what : Uni of Washington : can be adequately explained by : Box 357232 : incompetence" - Hanlon's Razor : Seattle WA 98195-7232 : : ------------------------------------------------------------ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-