Duncan has used the phrase "do regular operations on the object" to divide the
use cases and emphasized that needing the attributes might be important, but he
did not come out and remind you that if you _do_ perform regular operations on
it then the outputs of those operations are likely to lose
On 01/10/2021 6:14 p.m., Reed A. Cartwright wrote:
I'm rethinking the interface of a package, specifically how external binary
data is formatted for use in R. I can't decide if it is better to use
attributes to store metadata or use a list to hold the main data and
metadata as separate elements.
I'm rethinking the interface of a package, specifically how external binary
data is formatted for use in R. I can't decide if it is better to use
attributes to store metadata or use a list to hold the main data and
metadata as separate elements.
Here's is what one datatype currently looks like:
L
