On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Thomas Lumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It is probably worth pointing out here that the R documentation does not
>> specify the order in which lapply() does the computation.
>>
>
> I suspect that a huge amount of application code takes advantage
> of this order.
>
I don't. The order of evaluation is usually not readily observable. You
either have to use <<- to modify an external variable or you have to
produce printed or graphical output where the order matters.
There's probably some examples, but there are some examples of people
using solve(t(X) %*% W %*% X) %*% W %*% Y to compute regression
coefficients, too.
-thomas
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