Jeffrey J. Hallman <jhallman <at> frb.gov> writes: > Tim Hesterberg <timh <at> insightful.com> writes: > > > toby_marks <at> americancentury.com asked: > > >I am trying to divide the columns of a matrix by the first row in the > > >matrix. > > > > Dividing columns of a matrix by a vector is a pretty fundamental > > operation, and the query resulted in a large number of suggestions: > > > > It is unsatisfactory when such a fundamental operation is > > done in so many different ways. > > * It makes it hard to read other people's code. > > * Some of these are very inefficient. > > But since you have no way to force people to use your new 'standard' > operators, people can and will still use any of those myriad ways you decry to > do the same thing. It's part of the price you pay for working with a flexible > system. > > Besides, nothing will ever make it easy to read other people's code.
Reading others code is never an easy task, but there are huge differences between various "authors" and I agree with Tim, that it is nice to have some standardized operators for common/fundamental operations. If there are standard operators, people will use it more an more. ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
