From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Thu Jun 17 18:50:25 2004
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu Jun 17 18:50:32 2004
Subject: [Rd] using "= matrix (...)" in .C calls
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Tony Plate <tplate@blackmesacapital.com> writes:

>        Also, this type of basic question is more appropriate for
> R-help, not R-devel.

Hmm. No. 

(1) This list is for developers, and they can be beginners too. On
    r-help we cannot even assume that people know that C is a
    programming language.

(2) The author of rpart() had been using a couple of nifty but
    unorthodox tricks that it is not unreasonable for beginners to be
    confused by.

(not disagreeing that reading the documentation is generally a good
idea, of course!)

        -p

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[Rd] using "= matrix (...)" in .C calls
Peter Dalgaard