[R] merge words=data name

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 2/11/2007 8:57 PM, Mark W Kimpel wrote:
> Duncan,
> 
> Both yours and Gabor's methods were far superior to mine. I am curious 
> why you like Gabor's better than yours. From the perspective of someone 
> who uses R regularly but has only read about C, yours seems more 
> "R-like". Would Gabor's be more computationally efficient if the loop 
> was big enough?
> 
> I ask this because it made me ask myself, "are the C-like functions of R 
> 'better' (computationally) than the more R-like ones?"

Basically the reason I liked Gabor's solution is related to what Haris 
said.  I wouldn't worry so much about potential damage, but the 
possibility of getting something quite different from what you expect is 
larger with my solution.  Gabor's selected a particular component from a 
list, which is really what you wanted to do.

I suspect the difference in computational efficiency between the two 
wouldn't really be measurable, but Gabor's would be a little better. 
The main benefit of it is clarity.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Am I making sense?
> 
> Mark
> 
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 2/11/2007 4:17 PM, Robert McFadden wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
>>>>
>>>> eval(parse(text=my.data))
>>>>
>>> I would like to thank everybody very much for help, but especially for
>>> Duncan - it works wonderful.
>> You're welcome, but I have to say I like Gabor's solution better than 
>> mine, assuming that M3 is fixed.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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