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Ironholds / rbitrary

An explanation for some of R's seemingly-arbitrary design decisions, gathered nicely in one place.
https://ironholds.org/projects/rbitrary/
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Why are there so many single-character functions like c(0,1) ? #15

Open ghost opened 8 years ago

petermeissner commented 8 years ago

and why 'c' and not a or b ...

Ironholds commented 8 years ago

So basically the UNIX issue?

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petermeissner commented 8 years ago

Don't know, is it? Is c, C, t, ... Unix function names? Am 03.04.2016 11:34 nachm. schrieb "Oliver Keyes" <notifications@github.com

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petermeissner commented 8 years ago

t() is for transpose, I guess ... this would be a matrix notation thing.