[SVN] r5386 (R)

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 1:16 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
> How about divide into intervals?  (from ?cut)

Sounds great!

>> >> Well, "lines" creates a sequence of joined line segments. I would
>> >> call that a polygonal line (not a polygon, which would be a closed
>> >> such line).
>> >
>> > Hmmm, ok.  What's wrong with just calling it lines?
>> >
>> Nothing I guess, I'll change it. For me, lines would refer to just a
>> bunch of disjoint lines, but I guess this would never be used anyway
>> in this context, so "Lines" should be clear enough.
>> Perhaps "Line Segments" might be more accurate.
>
> Well, that might be confused with the segments command!  How about
> connected lines?  Or lines (connected) and lines (disconnected) for
> segments.

ah, I didn't know about the segments command! Ok, perhaps then "Line  
Segments (connected)" and "Line Segments (disconnected)" ? In fact we  
could make it into a group called Line Segments, with two items in it  
(or that might be pushing the boundaries of groups a bit too much.  
Are other other important commands dealing with segments? )

Since you have probably been using R a lot more than I have, what  
would be the list of commands that you think would be most useful to  
people? I am trying to add what I find important/useful, but I don't  
have enough experience in it to make such judgements, and we don't  
want a really chaotic system.

What I've been thinking is, for more obsure commands, to have  
something like the "Insert Command Template" command, except with a  
shorter list of commands, and with explanations for each command, so  
that people could search for them with keywords. Then perhaps we  
could put those in a Markdown document, so that a cheatsheet could  
show up on demand.

Haris