> Then, people tend to > define its own functions (I'm doing this too), and a lack of > standardization makes it difficult to keep everything into control.
If you think of R as more of a language rather than a pre-packaged statistical program, I feel that helps. In the C++ world, there are people all over writing classes and functions, and many of these have close or duplicate functionality. As a programmer, you can decide which one to use for your needs, or program your own, or extend someone else's, the choice is yours. The same in the R world, you have choices, and there does not have to be necessarily only method to do each task. I don't feel there needs to be 'control', everyone can implement what they want. If you think of R only as a prepacked statistical program however, I can see getting frustrated that there are usually many ways to do the same thing. R is much more than this though. That's how I see it anyway. ______________________________________________ [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
