[R] Function?

[Patrick Burns]

Would your blood still circulate if you take
off your heart?

That is, the answer is, "No, that's where the
work is done in the function."  If you want to
understand the computations that function is
doing, then you need to examine the C code
that it is calling.


Patrick Burns
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Jim Silverton wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am looking at the one program of the marketing textbook. I understand what
> the following function is doing especially the .C command
> Can someone help?
> If I take off the .C comand will it still run??
>
>
>
> drawwc = function(w, mu, y, sigi) {
>         .C("draww", w = as.double(w), as.double(mu), as.double(sigi),
>             as.integer(length(y)), as.integer(ncol(sigi)), as.integer(y))$w
>
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