Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/05/2007 11:34 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/05/2007 12:29 AM, Graham Wideman wrote: [...] Refman p122: Environments consist of a frame, or collection of named objects, and a pointer to an enclosing environment. Is the or here explaining

Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/05/2007 12:29 AM, Graham Wideman wrote: Folks: I'd appreciate if someone could straighten me out on a few concepts which are described a bit ambiguously in the docs. 1. data.frame: Refan p84: 'A data frame is a list of variables of the same length with unique

Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 01/05/2007 12:29 AM, Graham Wideman wrote: Folks: I'd appreciate if someone could straighten me out on a few concepts which are described a bit ambiguously in the docs. 1. data.frame: Refan p84: 'A data frame is a list of

Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-01 Thread graham wideman
Duncan: Thanks for taking a stab at my questions -- in following up I discovered the root of my difficulties -- I had not noticed document R-lang.pdf (R Language Definition). This clarifies a great deal. FWIW, it seems to me that a number of things I was hung up on (and which you

[R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-04-30 Thread Graham Wideman
Folks: I'd appreciate if someone could straighten me out on a few concepts which are described a bit ambiguously in the docs. 1. data.frame: Refan p84: 'A data frame is a list of variables of the same length with unique row names, given class data.frame.' I probably don't