From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Aug  6 22:24:13 1999
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:24:13 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
Subject: ts and defaults
In-Reply-To: <37AB5078.E7151CD1@bank-banque-canada.ca>
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.05.9908062220240.18403-100000@tern.stats>

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Paul Gilbert wrote:

[quoting me without attribution]

> >Do you want us to change ts in R not to be the constructor
> >of the ts class, and thereby `break a lot of user code' in R?
> 
> No, I want you to change the name of your new improved class of time series and
> leave "ts" alone or make it even more compatible with S.
> 
I asked a very specific question and got an ambiguous answer. `make it
even more compatible with S' means `yes', not `no', as in S ts() is not the
constructor of a ts class. Which do you want?

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ts and defaults
Prof Brian D Ripley