On 12/28/2010 9:43 AM, Tim Hesterberg wrote:
Having aperm() return an object of the same class is dangerous, there
are undoubtedly classes for which that is not appropriate, producing an
illegal object for that class or quietly giving incorrect results.
OK. I can see that my initial proposal
Michael Friendly frien...@yorku.ca
on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:33:07 -0500 writes:
On 12/28/2010 9:43 AM, Tim Hesterberg wrote:
Having aperm() return an object of the same class is dangerous, there
are undoubtedly classes for which that is not appropriate, producing an
Having aperm() return an object of the same class is dangerous, there
are undoubtedly classes for which that is not appropriate, producing an
illegal object for that class or quietly giving incorrect results.
Three alternatives are to:
* add the keep.class option but with default FALSE
* make
aperm() was designed for multidimensional arrays, but is also useful for
table objects, particularly
with the lattice, vcd and vcdExtra packages. But aperm() was designed
and implemented before other
related object classes were conceived, and I propose a small tune-up to
make it more generally
