Dear Spencer et al., I agree with Spencer's point: It's one thing to introduce usePackage() and encourage its use, another to remove library().
Regards, John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:03 PM > To: Peter Dalgaard > Cc: Mike Prager; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] Adding labels to variables > > Mon Dieu! > > I realize that I'm not part of r-devel, but for what > it's worth, I vastly prefer commands and programming styles > that produce code that can run without change in both S-Plus > and R. Any move to obsolete in R a command commonly used in > S-Plus would just make life more difficult for those of us > who have to live in both the S-Plus and R worlds. In my > judgment, where S-Plus and R currently differ, there usually > seems to be a good reason, and R is usually superior. One > example is the "log" > options in the probability functions. > > The suggestion to introduce "usePackage" and obsolete "library" > reminds me of a 6 week delay in the introduction in France of > a US automobile, because the French Royal Academy failed to > produce without a substantial delay an official French word > for a new technical term. The automobile could not be sold > without the User's Manual in French, and it could not be > printed without the approval of the French Royal Academy for > new words. > > just my 2e-12 cents. spencer graves > > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > >"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. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > [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