[R] Adding labels to variables

[John Fox]

Dear Spencer et al.,

I agree with Spencer's point: It's one thing to introduce usePackage() and
encourage its use, another to remove library().

Regards,
 John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:03 PM
> To: Peter Dalgaard
> Cc: Mike Prager; R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Adding labels to variables
> 
>       Mon Dieu! 
> 
>       I realize that I'm not part of r-devel, but for what 
> it's worth, I vastly prefer commands and programming styles 
> that produce code that can run without change in both S-Plus 
> and R.  Any move to obsolete in R a command commonly used in 
> S-Plus would just make life more difficult for those of us 
> who have to live in both the S-Plus and R worlds.  In my 
> judgment, where S-Plus and R currently differ, there usually 
> seems to be a good reason, and R is usually superior.  One 
> example is the "log" 
> options in the probability functions. 
> 
>       The suggestion to introduce "usePackage" and obsolete "library" 
> reminds me of a 6 week delay in the introduction in France of 
> a US automobile, because the French Royal Academy failed to 
> produce without a substantial delay an official French word 
> for a new technical term.  The automobile could not be sold 
> without the User's Manual in French, and it could not be 
> printed without the approval of the French Royal Academy for 
> new words. 
> 
>       just my 2e-12 cents.  spencer graves
> 
> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 
> >"Mike Prager" <Mike.Prager at noaa.gov> writes:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>At 01:01 PM 08/25/2004, Raubertas, Richard wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>As long as the function to load a package is called *library*, I 
> >>>think your campaign to change common usage is doomed to failure.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >Who says it's common usage? It is of course a common fallacy 
> to think 
> >that everyone else makes the same mistakes as you do...
> > 
> >  
> >
> >>Yes, and it's also annoyingly hard to remember -- at least 
> for those 
> >>of us who don't eat, sleep, and breathe R.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >There's a good chance that R-2.x will introduce usePackage() and 
> >eventually remove library() as a tool for loading packages.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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