[R] function question

[Patrick Burns]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 3/19/2009 12:49 PM, Edna Bell wrote:
>> Dear R Gurus:
>>
>> I read somewhere that functions are considered vectors.
>>
>> Is this true, please?
>
> Your question is a little ambiguous (you probably did read that, and 
> probably someone does consider them to be vectors), but I think the 
> right answer is no:  when the R documentation talks about vectors, it 
> is not talking about functions, and the is.vector() function returns 
> FALSE for functions.
>
> Duncan Murdoch

It could be that you read that about S+ functions,
where they can be thought of as (very special)
vectors.  R functions are different in this respect.

Patrick Burns
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