[Rd] question

[Gabor Grothendieck]

I posted this a few years ago (but found I never really had a
need for it):

http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/06/1430.html



On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:22 AM, ivo welch <ivowel at gmail.com> wrote:
> dear R developers:  it is of course easy for a third party to make
> suggestions if this third party is both clueless and does not put in
> any work.  with these caveats, let me suggest something.
>
> The syntax for returning multiple arguments does not strike me as
> particularly appealing.  would it not possible to allow syntax like:
>
>   f= function() { return( rnorm(10), rnorm(20) ) }
>   (a,d$b) = f()
>
> this would just hide the list conversion and unconversion.  yes, I
> know how to accomplish this with lists, but it does not seem pretty or
> natural.
>
> regards,
>
> /ivo
>
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