The nice thing about R is if you don't like something, then get create your own function (is.Integer?) that does what you want without asking to have the base code changed and therefore impact a lot of programs. You can have whatever functions your heart desires and use them privately and quit bellyaching about a very good software projects. If you have ever worked in developing software, then you know there are always "work arounds" to any problem.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/09/2008 6:33 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: >> >> On 26/09/2008, at 9:23 AM, Wacek Kusnierczyk wrote: >> >>> indeed. one more example that R man pages are often rather >>> uninformative, despite verbosity. >> >> My, you ***are*** in a bad mood, aren't you? :-) >> >> The quality of R documentation has been debated, castigated >> defended and dissected many times before on this list. >> >> Overall the quality of the documentation is good. It is a >> bit ``curate's egg'', but overall ... it's good. Especially >> in comparison with most other systems. >> >> There are parts of the documentation that I'd like to re-write. >> But they would never let me! :-) > > Just try us! But remember that the man pages should be correct and > appropriately complete, and it helps if they're terse. Suggesting they're > verbose just shows that Wacek isn't reading them carefully enough. > > Of course, there are lots of examples where they are not correct, or > unintentionally incomplete. Those are the parts we'd really like you to > re-write. There are also parts where they are intentionally incomplete: > there are certain things that users are not meant to know. (Things that > might not be true in the next release, not arcane secrets.) > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem that you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
