Bob Cain wrote: : Jason Turner wrote: : : > However, I'd like to second Prof. Ripley's remark that if you're actually : > using indicies explicitly, you probably haven't wrapped your head around : > how powerful the indexing structure and "whole object" approach is in S : > (including R). It's been a long time since I used counter-based indicies. : : I absolutely agree that the powerful indexing in R : ameliorates it to a large extent but even the less powerful : indexing of Matlab should satisfy that condition and yet : there is still considerable sturm and drang over this issue.
I believe the point was not so much that R has powerful indexing (which it does) but that the capabilities of dealing with objects as a whole, i.e. without using indexing at all, makes facilities for indexing less important. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
