On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote:
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
Well, that's one issue. But another is that there should be a
specification addressed to users, who should not have to understand
internals.
this should really be taken seriously.
Well, the lack of such a specification is a documented bug (see the FAQ on bug
reporting), and I think everyone agrees it would be useful, just not as useful
as what they would have to stop doing to write it. In fact, such a document
may well have a higher priority than it deserves: people who would want that
sort of documentation are overrepresented in R-core compared to the general R
user community.
There was a panel talk at DSC2005 (yes, four years ago) on the possibilities
for a joint R/S language standard. That would have provided an external
stimulus and a framework for finding all the inconsistencies. It didn't really
eventuate.
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlum...@u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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