[R] two questions for R beginners

[Jim Lemon]

On 03/04/2010 08:20 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>...
>> Perhaps the print methods for data.frame and matrix
>> should announce the class of the object being printed.
>
> Yes! An enthusiastic vote for highlighting this fundamental distinction.
> There is already quite enough conflation of these two very dissimilar
> object classes.
>
If so, please make it an option with an argument like "show.class" or 
"print.fancy" that can be set globally in options. Otherwise those of us 
who depend upon the sparse displays of R objects in our functions (e.g. 
in the prettyR package) will suffer the results.

Jim