From rossini@u.washington.edu  Wed Dec  5 15:59:12 2001
From: rossini@u.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini)
Date: 05 Dec 2001 07:59:12 -0800
Subject: [Rd] factorial() not here (PR#1194)
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>>>>> "m" == maechler  <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

>>>>> "rmh" == rmh  <rmh@surfer.sbm.temple.edu> writes:

    m> well, and where's the bug ?  There are many more functions in
    m> S+ which are not in R.  factorial() is not a blue book or white
    m> book function {of course!}; hence no direct reason to have it
    m> in R.  Reversely, should we start sending bug reports to S-news
    m> or Insightful for R functions not existing in S+ ?

Combine this with Brian's comment about Greg's concat masking an S
function, and this is amusing.

R-core can't have it both ways, emulating S when it pleases, and
complaining when not!  (at least Greg implemented it for future, so
that we don't get the mandatory statement about volunteer projects!). 

best,
-tony

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[Rd] factorial() not here (PR#1194)
A.J. Rossini