On 16/10/2018 6:42 PM, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel wrote:
The survival package, like many others, has several helper functions that are
not declared
in the namespace, since their only use is to be called by other "main"
functions of the
package. This works well since the functions in
The survival package, like many others, has several helper functions that are
not declared
in the namespace, since their only use is to be called by other "main"
functions of the
package. This works well since the functions in the survival namespace can see
them ---
without ::: arguments ---
Well,
I think what you want to do is hard if you insist on using a replacement
function, i.e. massign(vars) <- values.
But as you wrote, you can use a modified assignment operator, or you could
write something comparable to assign, so massign(listofvars, listofvalues,
environment) shouldn’t be
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 12:03 AM Abs Spurdle wrote:
> Probably the best example I can think of is converting cartesian
> coordinates to polar coordinates.
> Then we might have something like (note, untested, written in my email):
> cart2polar = function (x, y)
> list (theta=atan (y / x), r=sq
This URL, which appears in the ?Titanic web page:
https://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v3n3/datasets.dawson.html
gives me a 404 error. Googling "Dawson titanic data" gives
ww2.amstat.org/publications/jse/v3n3/datasets.dawson.html
which is similarly broken.
Poking around gives this pre
