I appreciate Brian and Martin's answers -- and I certainly don't spend as much time & energy maintaining and answering questions about R as they do -- *but* it does seem to me that it would make a number of new (switching) user's lives easier if there were a succinct list of these differences, with a disclaimer ... I would be willing to maintain such a list, but since I don't ever use S-PLUS it would be a little bit hard ...
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~dbabinea/webpage/function.htm gives a few differences. Ben Bolker -- 620B Bartram Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Zoology Department, University of Florida http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker Box 118525 (ph) 352-392-5697 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 (fax) 352-392-3704 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:13:18 +0200 From: Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Purvis Bedenbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] R - S compatibility table >>>>> "Purvis" == Purvis Bedenbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:03:13 -0400 writes: Purvis> Hello all - I've just recently been exploring R for Purvis> the first time. After noticing a few things that Purvis> have changed from S to R, I started looking for an Purvis> R-S compatibility table but didn't find it. Is such Purvis> a table out there ? Where ? Purvis> Thanks much, Purvis> Purvis Bedenbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purvis> Examples: Purvis> 'stdev' is now 'sd' "now" is good. sd() has been in R for about 7 years, whereas stdev() was introduced into S+ only for version 6.x.. in about 2000. Purvis> - is it exactly the same computation ? no, it isn't (in more than one sense)... Purvis> couldn't find a built-in for error.bar() "built-in" is not a good notion in any version of S, but much less in R : R comes with 28 (standard + recommended) packages of which only a few are attached by default, and CRAN has over 200 contributed packages; Bioconductor has another several dozen, and there are more outside the official repositories above. Several of the CRAN packages have error.bar incantations.. Purvis> syntax that is an error in R: param(thisframe,"b") <- value It's not a syntax error; just, there's no "param<-" function in the currently attached R packages (and not in other R packages I seem to have around)... Prof. Brian Ripley has given you more hints already. -- Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <>< ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
