[R] Zero Index Origin?

[Bob Cain]

Jason Turner wrote:


> I do some DSP work, in the context of instrumentation signal filtering,
> identification, tracking, and coherence (finding plant signals that have
> similar "fingerprints").  I agree that in languages that require you to
> work with explicit index values, the zero-offset makes perfect sense.
> 
> However, I'd like to second Prof. Ripley's remark that if you're actually
> using indicies explicitly, you probably haven't wrapped your head around
> how powerful the indexing structure and "whole object" approach is in S
> (including R).  It's been a long time since I used counter-based indicies.

I absolutely agree that the powerful indexing in R 
ameliorates it to a large extent but even the less powerful 
indexing of Matlab should satisfy that condition and yet 
there is still considerable sturm and drang over this issue.


Bob
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