[R] Zero Index Origin?

[Bob Cain]

I'm very new to R and utterly blown away by not only the 
language but the unbelievable set of packages and the 
documentation and the documentation standards and...

I was an early APL user and never lost my love for it and in 
R I find most of the essential things I loved about APL 
except for one thing.  At this early stage of my learning I 
can't yet determine if there is a way to effect what in APL 
was zero index origin, the ordinality of indexes starts with 
0 instead of 1.  Is it possible to effect that in R without 
a lot of difficulty?

I come here today from the world of DSP research and 
development where Matlab has a near hegemony.  I see no 
reason whatsoever that R couldn't replace it with a _far_ 
better and _far_ less idiosyncratic framework.  I'd be 
interested in working on a Matlab equivalent DSP package for 
R (if that isn't being done by someone) and one of the 
things most criticized about Matlab from the standpoint of 
the DSP programmer is its insistence on 1 origin indexing. 
Any feedback greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

Bob
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