[Rd] list/matrix chimera

Seth Falcon sfalcon at fhcrc.org
Tue Apr 10 19:45:48 CEST 2007


"hadley wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> writes:
> That's rather a contrived example.  In practice, you would create a
> list containing the same type of objects.  eg:

Yes, great.  But when you have code that is expecting a matrix
argument, you can't know what you are going to get.  I suspect there
is a fair amount of matrix manipulating code that breaks when given
list-based matrices.



More information about the R-devel mailing list