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Subject: Re: [R] More user-friendly error message needed.
Shin wrote:
Thanks for your kind explanation.
Actually, I just begin to learn R, so not familiar with many behaviors
of R yet. As a user of Python and MATLAB, I understand the problem of
cryptic error messages of loosely-typed
From: Shin, Daehyok sdhyok at catchlab.org
Con. Poor design for object-oriented programming, compared with Python.
Have a look at oo.R package if you
want a more traditional oo approach.
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Shin, Daehyok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Con. Poor design for object-oriented programming, compared with
Python. I am quite sure that in the aspect of language design
Python is far better than MATLAB and R. Simple, elegant, and
powerful. S3 supports only a basic level of OOP, while S4
Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com writes:
From: Shin, Daehyok sdhyok at catchlab.org
Con. Poor design for object-oriented programming, compared with Python.
Have a look at oo.R package if you
want a more traditional oo approach.
As several people have pointed out, this
It's actually not that easy to provide the meaningful kind of error message
you are asking for. (Though it would be nice.)
Consider what happens in the case you give:
(1) The argument of plot() of evaluated, and has the value NULL
(2) plot() is called with a single argument, which is NULL
All
Thanks for your kind explanation.
Actually, I just begin to learn R, so not familiar with many behaviors
of R yet. As a user of Python and MATLAB, I understand the problem of
cryptic error messages of loosely-typed languages.
But,if some types of mistakes are often made by users in R interactive
Shin wrote:
Thanks for your kind explanation.
Actually, I just begin to learn R, so not familiar with many behaviors
of R yet. As a user of Python and MATLAB, I understand the problem of
cryptic error messages of loosely-typed languages.
Besides that, what do you think of R so far?
Bob
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