Message-ID: <f8e6ff050812101551u11736e01x75f9f95eb47a3856@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-12-10T23:51:59Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: repeated searching of no-missing values
In-Reply-To: <005601c95b20$81ec7c10$3a0b2c0a@gne.windows.gene.com>
> graphics,statistical analysis etc. as well as programming. There are just
> too many possible data structures to expect logical consistency in their
> handling throughout (if one can even define what that means in specific
> instances!).
I disagree with this claim: I think it is possible to create a logical
and consistent set of functions for working with the all basic data
structures in R, and this is what I have attempted to do with my plyr
package. Any remaining inconsistencies are due to my failings, not
the fundamental difficulty of the task.
Hadley
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