> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles C. Berry > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 4:31 PM > To: Douglas Bates > Cc: Wacek Kusnierczyk; Achim Zeileis; R help > Subject: [R] foruntes candidate?? WAS:Re: Bug in "is" ? > > > > Douglas Bates [after a tortuous discussion of the behavior of > is(7,"integer")]: > > As for the question of the bug in "is", ... "it depends what your > definition of `is' is." [Bill Clinton] >
Ahh yes, what I referred to at the time as the Humpty Dumpty defense :-) after Lewis Carroll's "Through the looking glass." (chapter 5) ... `I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"' `But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected. `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.' `The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.' `The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's all.' Dan Daniel J. Nordlund Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Planning, Performance, and Accountability Research and Data Analysis Division Olympia, WA 98504-5204 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
