[R] two questions for R beginners
Peter Alspach
Peter.Alspach at plantandfood.co.nz
Mon Mar 1 20:58:25 CET 2010
> On 01/03/2010 9:19 AM, John Sorkin wrote:
> If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it ought to
> behave like a duck.
>
This brings up another confusion for new users. Simply typing the
object name at the command line gives just one view of the object (that
provided by print()). Real ducks fooled by decoy ducks get shot. The
consequences of thinking a matrix and dataframe are the same are not
quite so severe :-)
Hei kona ra .....
Peter Alspach
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