[Rd] two almost identical packages: best practice

2005-09-09 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi I have written a whole bunch of methods for objects of class octonion. [ an octonion is a single column of an eight-row matrix. Octonions have their own multiplication rules and are a generalization of quaternions, which are columns of a four-row matrix. ] So far I've done about a dozen

Re: [Rd] two almost identical packages: best practice

2005-09-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/9/05, Robin Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have written a whole bunch of methods for objects of class octonion. [ an octonion is a single column of an eight-row matrix. Octonions have their own multiplication rules and are a generalization of quaternions, which are columns of

Re: [Rd] two almost identical packages: best practice

2005-09-09 Thread Seth Falcon
On 9 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written a whole bunch of methods for objects of class octonion. So far I've done about a dozen generic functions such as seq.octonion(), rep.octonion(), [-.octonion(), and so on and so on. Very nearly all of these functions are applicable to