I did not intend to shoot anyone... but my own learning curve led me to skip over the clear descriptions in the "Introduction to R" document because I thought I already understood the terminology. True, it happened a long time ago, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to grok this because the terminology seemed so familiar, and I searched on the wrong terms because of it.
On December 10, 2018 9:06:20 AM PST, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > >Jeff, > >On 10 December 2018 at 08:43, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >| Your use of the term "array" in this context suggests you still don't >have a firm grasp of R data types. R arrays are vectors with dim >attributes. What you want is to create an R vector with 1 element, as >shown in the quick reference. [1] > >No need to shoot the messenger. I happen to know Wolf comes from C++ >and >Pythonland where array is well defined term. > >But yes, over here some things are different. But not everybody has >spent >10+ (or 20+) years in R and S land as you and I. > >Dirk -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
