Re: [Rd] two almost identical packages: best practice

2005-09-09 Thread Seth Falcon
On 9 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have written a whole bunch of methods for objects of class > "octonion". > > So far I've done about a dozen generic functions such as > seq.octonion(), rep.octonion(), [<-.octonion(), and so on and so on. > > Very nearly all of these functions are appli

Re: [Rd] two almost identical packages: best practice

2005-09-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 9/9/05, Robin Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have written a whole bunch of methods for objects of class "octonion". > > [ > an octonion is a single column of an eight-row matrix. Octonions have > their own multiplication rules and are a generalization of quaternions, > which are

[Rd] two almost identical packages: best practice

2005-09-09 Thread Robin Hankin
Hi I have written a whole bunch of methods for objects of class "octonion". [ an octonion is a single column of an eight-row matrix. Octonions have their own multiplication rules and are a generalization of quaternions, which are columns of a four-row matrix. ] So far I've done about a dozen ge