system.time(), sys.time() etc
From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at pdf.com]
Martin says, "This is another instance of S-Plus following R
behind and doing it incompatibly [with a reason?] ... ."
This is one example of a major issue in "how to wage and win a
standards war", discussed by Shapiro and Varian (1998)
Information Rules
(Harvard Business School Press). Whether you're Bill Gates or Larry
Ellison, you want to make it easy for people to move to your product
from a competitor but expensive for your current customers to
escape to
the competition.
Spencer Graves
But I believe neither Insightful nor R-core would want to see each other as
competitor. (Reality might be quite different.) It would not be in the
best interest of either party.
(Apologies for putting words in R-Core's mouth. As for Insightful, at least
that's David Smith's word when he talked about `Future of S-PLUs' at the
2002 Insightful Technology Conference.)
Andy
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