Rolf Turner wrote: > On 17/04/2008, at 9:33 AM, Charles C. Berry wrote: > > <snip> > >>I'll lay odds that Matthew's 'matrix' is actually a data.frame, and >>I'll not be surprised if the columns are factors. > > > <snip> > > I suspect that you're right. > > ***Why*** can't people distinguish between data frames and matrices? > If they were the same <expletive deleted> thing, there wouldn't be two > different terms for them, would there? > Why Rolf, haven't you ever heard of Whorf's hypothesis? Because R users are surrounded by rectangular wads of data, it's surprising that we don't have hundreds of words for the same thing.
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