More powerful than objects() or ls()
According to Thomas Lumley: |>
|> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Patrick Connolly wrote:
|> > |> > There are times when the date is very valuable information, |> > particularly years later. I would like to be able to do something |> > similar in R but of course, the same method won't work because objects |> > are not stored as separate unix files in a .Data directory. | ..... |> comment() does the information management you need. There isn't an |> automatic way of doing the date information and I can't think ofa general |> one that wouldn't be horribly slow. You could add a date-setting function I think it would be simple enough if I could get something in R to work the way substitute() does in Splus. The thinking seems to be very different between the two dialects. Maybe if I tinker a bit longer, I'll get the connexion between them. |> to your most frequnelty used object creation functions (perhaps |> read.table and glm in my case). That works easily for read.table, and probably for glm, but how would I make it work for the function function which works internally? It's the age of my functions that I'm most interested in -- largely historical interest. I've found it immensely useful in Splus. I'm a little surprised others aren't so interested. Thanks Thomas for your help. best
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