I just discovered the comment function in R. Example:
x <- matrix(1:12, 3,4) comment(x) <- c("This is my very important data from experiment #0234", "Jun 5, 1998") x comment(x) This is the first time I came by this function and was wondering what are common/useful uses of it.
Since it is quite difficult to search "R comment" in google and find relevant results, I was hoping someone here might share with his experience.
Best Answer
To second @Gavin, Frank Harrell has developed efficient ways to handle annotated data.frame in R in his Hmisc package. For example, the label() and units() functions allow to add dedicated attributes to R objects. I find them very handy when producing summary of data.frame (e.g., with describe()).
Another useful way of using such an extra attribute is to apply a timestamp on a data set. I also add an attribute for things like random seed, fold number (when I use k-kold or LOO cross-validation).
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