From h.wickham at gmail.com  Fri Dec  4 17:19:12 2009
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (hadley wickham)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 10:19:12 -0600
Subject: [Rd] raster support in graphics devices
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> Its not just the time. ?Its also the nuisance of having to manage files that
> I never needed in the first place.

In general, it's much easier to create output from a R object than
create an R object from output.

It's good programming practice to minimise the number of functions
with side-effects - if all input and output went through connections,
many parts of R would be much easier to program against.

Hadley

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[Rd] raster support in graphics devices
hadley wickham