I'm very new to R and utterly blown away by not only the language but the unbelievable set of packages and the documentation and the documentation standards and...
I was an early APL user and never lost my love for it and in R I find most of the essential things I loved about APL except for one thing. At this early stage of my learning I can't yet determine if there is a way to effect what in APL was zero index origin, the ordinality of indexes starts with 0 instead of 1. Is it possible to effect that in R without a lot of difficulty?
I come here today from the world of DSP research and development where Matlab has a near hegemony. I see no reason whatsoever that R couldn't replace it with a _far_ better and _far_ less idiosyncratic framework. I'd be interested in working on a Matlab equivalent DSP package for R (if that isn't being done by someone) and one of the things most criticized about Matlab from the standpoint of the DSP programmer is its insistence on 1 origin indexing. Any feedback greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob --
"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."
A. Einstein
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