From Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at  Thu May 22 06:28:52 1997
From: Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 07:28:52 +0200
Subject: R-alpha: iris
In-Reply-To: <199705212029.IAA00868@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
References: <199705212029.IAA00868@stat1.stat.auckland.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <199705220528.HAA03991@aragorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

>>>>> Ross Ihaka writes:

>> Also, why is the iris data set shipped with R different from the one
>> that comes with S-PLUS?

> Do you mean the numbers in the data, or the fact that we have a data
> frame and they have a 50x4x3 array?   (I've never understood why anyone
> would have structured the iris data that way ...).

The latter.  I am playing a bit with porting Brian's `class' library,
and surprisingly the tests he has use the iris data set ...

The df makes more sense, right.

-k
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R-alpha: iris
Kurt Hornik