On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > This just seems like horrendously bad practice, which is one reason > it's kludgy in R. If it was good practice, someone would surely have > written a way to do it neatly. > > Keep your data in data files, and your functions in .R function > files. You'll thank me later.
It can be useful from a deployment point of view if you have to send it around. Posting questions on the r-help list is a good example. ______________________________________________ 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.