R: did you know ``comment(.) and comment(.) <- ...'' - R-devel

Ross Ihaka · 1998-03-27T21:31:21Z

> From r-devel-owner@stat.math.ethz.ch Sat Mar 28 02:30 NZS 1998 > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:33:02 +0100 > From: Martin Maechler > To: R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: R: did you know ``comment(.) and comment(.) Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.95) > > I'm doing some systematic investigations about which functions are > in R (and which of these should be changed to .Internal(...))... > > I just discovered : > > > x > co

Ross Ihaka

Fri, Mar 27, 1998 1:31 PM #

You are making the assumption that I know about this :-).
I do have a very vague memory of trying something like this as
and experiment.  Is it worth keeping?

	Ross
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Peter Dalgaard

Fri, Mar 27, 1998 3:16 PM #

Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes:

Definitely. Not very long ago someone asked whether there was an R
equivalent of SPSS's description field...

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Gregory R. Warnes

Fri, Mar 27, 1998 4:43 PM #

On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Ross Ihaka wrote:

[...]

I think it's worth keeping!  

-Greg

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