On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote: > A small drawback to Gabor's proposal: > > > "aa" %:% "dd" > [1] "b" "c" "d" > > "00" %:% "99" > character(0) > > Defining it as a seq() method for characters is probably not a terribly good > idea, as one should expect it to work for any character vectors as input. > (One can argue that the function worked as `expected', I suppose...)
Another drawback: the order of characters is locale-dependent. letters and LETTERS are an Anglophone's view of what happens (or happened, probably) in Roman. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
