"what is the problem you are trying to solve?" elegance, ease, and readability in my programs.
R has morphed from a data manipulation, graphics, and stats program into my mainstay programming language. most of this has been a huge gain. the addition of the parallel package was another recent big gain for me. some of it is a loss. I particularly lament the fact that I cannot turn off [silent] recycling (causing great hair loss on my end at various occasions), no applicable error line number output on error messages; and some syntax that could be nicer. this was a prime example of the latter. regards, /iaw [and then there are some impossible syntax desires, like in-string substitution. would it not be nice if I could write f("use $a\n") instead of f(paste("use", a, "\n", sep="")) ?] [some of my loss relates to my lack of understanding of some of the magic behind R. I just stumbled onto the fact that I can obtain loess x variables with l$x; until then, I was trying to figure out how to construct names and paste to match what unlist told me. worse, I have spotty memory. you guys reading and helping out people like me, plus the google archives here, are angels. without your help, I could not use R.] ---- Ivo Welch (ivo.we...@gmail.com) ______________________________________________ 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.