2008/9/25 Kingsford Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Try > > ?type > > which correctly guesses the user is looking for the 'typeof' page. > > Or even > > example(type) > > Also, after a brief introduction, the R Language Definition document > begins with a discussion of types. > > > Kingsford Jones >
But if, oh if, we could start R from scratch, would the documentation contain such gems as: "value: a character string giving the desired mode or 'storage mode' (type) of the object." and """ As storage mode "single" is only a pseudo-mode in R, it will not be reported by mode or storage.mode: use attr(object, "Csingle") to examine this. However, mode<- can be used to set the mode to "single", which sets the real mode to "double" and the "Csingle" attribute to TRUE. Setting any other mode will remove this attribute. """ Looking at the R docs for typeof and mode it seems to refer to modes, types, storage modes, (storage) modes, 'storage mode' (type)s, real modes, pseudo-modes and internal types. Confused? Clearly people are! Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
