[Rd] New matrix function

Morgan Morgan
2019-10-11T17:41:17Z

I think you are confusing package and function here. Plus some of the R
Core packages, that you mention, contain functions that should probably be
replaced by functions with better implementation from packages on CRAN.

Best regards
Morgan

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:22 Joris Meys, <jorismeys at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 3:55 PM Morgan Morgan <morgan.emailbox at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> How do you prove usefulness of a feature?
>> Do you have an example of a feature that has been added after proving
to
>> be
>> useful in the package space first?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Morgan
>>
>
> The parallel package (a base package like utils, stats, ...) was added as
> a drop-in replacement of the packages snow and multicore for parallel
> computing. That's one example, but sure there's more.
>
> Kind regards
> Joris
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