[R] Translating lm.object to SQL, C, etc function

[j+rhelp@howard.fm]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:25:05 +0000 (GMT), ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk said:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 j+rhelp at howard.fm wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion. After my last post I tried switching from
> > SPLUS to R and discovered the useful xlevels attribute, which when output
> 
> Eh?  S-PLUS has an "xlevels" attribute, but R has an "xlevels" component
> (speaks the author of both).
> 
Thanks for the clarification.

> You add methods to functions, not classes, in R.  You could indeed add
> generic accessor functions with lm methods, but their absence (and the
> lack of documentation of the internal structure) should alert you to the
> idea that this is internal structure and not part of a public API.
> 
OK, I'll stay away from that then...

> > In SPLUS I came across a useful attribute 'assign', which has a mapping
> > of term names to variables - the same attribute in R doesn't appear to
> > provide this information. Is this available somewhere?
> 
> Both have an assign *component*, not attribute.  R has a mapping from
> model.matrix columns to terms in its assign component: that's not an
> accurate description of S-PLUS's component ....
> 
Now that I look again more closely I see what you mean. Sorry for the
missing that.
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  Jeremy Howard
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