Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/05/2007 11:34 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 01/05/2007 12:29 AM, Graham Wideman wrote: [...] >>> Refman p122: "Environments consist of a frame, or collection of named >>> objects, and a pointer to an enclosing environment." >>> >>> Is the "

Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-01 Thread graham wideman
Duncan: Thanks for taking a stab at my questions -- in following up I discovered the root of my difficulties -- I had not noticed document R-lang.pdf ("R Language Definition"). This clarifies a great deal. FWIW, it seems to me that a number of things I was hung up on (and which you discusse

Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 01/05/2007 12:29 AM, Graham Wideman wrote: >> Folks: >> >> I'd appreciate if someone could straighten me out on a few concepts which >> are described a bit ambiguously in the docs. >> >> 1. data.frame: >> >> Refan p84: 'A data frame

Re: [R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-05-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/05/2007 12:29 AM, Graham Wideman wrote: > Folks: > > I'd appreciate if someone could straighten me out on a few concepts which > are described a bit ambiguously in the docs. > > 1. data.frame: > > Refan p84: 'A data frame is a list of variables of the same length with >

[R] Concepts question: environment, frame, search path

2007-04-30 Thread Graham Wideman
Folks: I'd appreciate if someone could straighten me out on a few concepts which are described a bit ambiguously in the docs. 1. data.frame: Refan p84: 'A data frame is a list of variables of the same length with unique row names, given class "data.frame".' I probably don't n