Re: [R] Does sink stand for anything?
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Sharpie ch...@sharpsteen.net wrote: Sink captures R output and directs it elsewhere- common places are a file or device such as /dev/null Personally it always connected with the concept of a sink in a mathematical system as something that removes constituants from the system. Also, note that 'sink' has nothing to do with floating point numbers... -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman __ 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.
Re: [R] Does sink stand for anything?
On Apr 15, 2010, at 5:12 PM, Paul Miller wrote: Hello Everyone, Learning about R and its wonderful array of functions. If it's not obvious, I usually try to find out what a function stands for. I think this helps me remember better. One function that has me stumped is sink. Can anyone tell me if this stands for something? In the kitchen, a sink is the place you put the dishes in. In electronics, a sink is where the electrons go after they have made their way through the circuitry ... also known as a ground, whereas sources are the current inputs. There were a lot of EE types among the original cadre of computer scientitsts. In the NIXen class of OSes, there is a pipe operation, and I believe that the destination file or device is probably called a sink by some. This leads me to think that a hybrid argot of plumbing and circuitry analogies is the likely origin of the term. Thanks, Paul David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT __ 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.
Re: [R] Does sink stand for anything?
Sink is meant to mean send output to the location I specify. It has no hidden
meaning that I am aware of.
John
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Hello Everyone,
Learning about R and its wonderful array of functions. If it's not obvious, I
usually try to find out what a function stands for. I think this helps me
remember better.
One function that has me stumped is sink. Can anyone tell me if this stands
for something?
Thanks,
Paul
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Re: [R] Does sink stand for anything?
Paul Miller wrote: Hello Everyone, Learning about R and its wonderful array of functions. If it's not obvious, I usually try to find out what a function stands for. I think this helps me remember better. One function that has me stumped is sink. Can anyone tell me if this stands for something? Thanks, Paul Sink captures R output and directs it elsewhere- common places are a file or device such as /dev/null Personally it always connected with the concept of a sink in a mathematical system as something that removes constituants from the system. -Charlie - Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Does-sink-stand-for-anything-tp1934321p1934484.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ 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.
