In addition to what others have suggested, see ?history. Cheers, Bert
Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Pito Salas <pitosa...@brandeis.edu> wrote: > I am studying statistics and using R in doing it. I come from software > development where we document everything we do. > > As I “massage” my data, adding columns to a frame, computing on other data, > perhaps cleaning, I feel the need to document in detail what the meaning, or > background, or calculations, or whatever of the data is. After all it is now > derived from my raw data (which may have been well documented) but it is > “new.” > > Is this a real problem? Is there a “best practice” to address this? > > Thanks! > > Pito Salas > Brandeis Computer Science > Feldberg 131 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
