[R] R (external ?) reference

[Luke Tierney]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Laurent Gautier wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> I found a documentation on the web that mentions things like 'R references'
> (http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/R/simpleref.html).
> 
> However, I could not find the R_MakeReference and friends in R...
> Does anyone knows more about that ?
> 

It's not as clear as it could be in that document but that part was
just a proposal.  It has not been implemented.  Something at the pure
R level along these lines can easily be implemented with environments;
something a bit more sophisticated may eventually make it into the
methods package.

luke

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