good source for explaining input and output parameters of R functions
1) surf.ls is not part of R: it is in package spatial.
2) Its help page does explain *4* fields in the value, and says
`and others for internal use only.'
That means what it says: they are not for use by you, and hence not
documented.
I think you have unrealistic expectations: my uncredited software was
written to support a book (see its DESCRIPTION file), and the *book* does
explain how it works. All you need to do is to buy the book ... or read the
sources, as R is Open Source and that package is GPL-ed.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Yan Yu wrote:
Hello, thank you all for answering my previous Qs.. I have a new Q: I am wondering is there good source for explaning input and output parameters of R function? In that aspect, I found the help documents in R is not that helpful:) I am struggling with trying to understand what some of the returned value means.. for example, for surf.ls() function, the help in R only describes 3 fields(the wierd thing is that those explained 3 fields are identical to the input) of returned value, and leave a bunch of others(e.g., like "f" and "wz"which looks pretty interesting, but i had no clue what they are about..) unexplained. Is there any good source if I want to understand the input and output of , or how to use a particular R function? Many thanks, yan
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