Sigh. I thought I was making a small innocuous observation, but it has apparently been taken as some kind of challenge. Martin's efforts to correct this usage seem (to me) frequent enough to justify calling the mistake 'common', but I guess others will disagree.
And what grounds do you have for your implication that it is a mistake I make? Rich Raubertas > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:37 PM > To: Mike Prager > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Adding labels to variables > > > "Mike Prager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > At 01:01 PM 08/25/2004, Raubertas, Richard wrote: > > >As long as the function to load a package is called *library*, > > >I think your campaign to change common usage is doomed to failure. > > Who says it's common usage? It is of course a common fallacy to think > that everyone else makes the same mistakes as you do... > > > Yes, and it's also annoyingly hard to remember -- at least for those > > of us who don't eat, sleep, and breathe R. > > There's a good chance that R-2.x will introduce usePackage() and > eventually remove library() as a tool for loading packages. > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: > (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: > (+45) 35327907 > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
