[Alberto Monteiro] > Maybe I'll write a letter to Santa Claus [there are people > who write to congressman; they must have more faith than me].
:-) :-) > I wish a language where I can write > a = b + 10 > and then when I write > a = 20 > the language automatically assigns b = 10. METAFONT does this (and consequently, Metapost as well). I still remember my surprise when I found out that Donald Knuth resorts to such sophisticated machinery for the sole purpose of designing font characters. Knuth surely did many wonderful things :-). -- François Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
