[R] Package 'operators'

[Romain Francois]

How is this different to dependency on regular functions ?

On 07/02/2009 10:29 PM, Seeliger.Curt at epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> Folks,
>
> In brief -- how many of you have found the 'operators' package to be
> valuable in their work?
>
> Not that I lack respect for the amount of work involved in creating and
> maintaining a package, but I am unsure about the utility of these new
> operators.  Several of the operators appear to offer different ways of
> accomplishing tasks that are already relatively easy in base R -- regular
> expressions, set membership, etc.  Some tasks appear slightly clearer with
> these operators, e.g. foo<- letters %without% 'a' is clearer than foo<-
> letters[letters != 'a'], but widespread use of the package would require
> future developers as well as our our cooperators to be conversant in with
> the new operators as well as the common base R idioms.
>
> There is the additional risk of programs using these operators requiring
> additional attention if the package is not maintained.
>
> Thank you in advance for any insights,
>
> cur


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