On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:53:35 -0400, "Shin, Daehyok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
>Glad to know useful functions. >How about adding lsv.str function to list only variables bound to values? >In my opinion, we are more interested in values than functions in the >process of data analysis. In R, functions often contain useful information about data (in their attached environments). For example, the result of a smoothing fit could include a function that calculates the fitted value at any point. So the distinction between functions and values isn't as clear as you seem to be thinking. However, it would be useful to get a slightly more informative version of ls(), that returned a data.frame containing the name, length, class, and other useful information for each object. Then if you didn't want to see functions, you'd just select based on the class (or mode, or some other column). I seem to recall that S-PLUS has such a function, but I forget the name of it. Probably R does too, on CRAN if not in the base packages. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [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
