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Message-ID: <AANLkTina14Jjri3E0KOd91E1CT1_ivxCUaXZPBg4wWZA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-02-16T15:31:43Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: matrixStats: Extend to arrays too (Was: Re: Suggestion: Adding quick rowMin and rowMax functions to base package)
In-Reply-To: <yajfk4h0rq60.fsf@gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Tim Hesterberg <timhesterberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> For consistency with rowSums colSums rowMeans etc., the names should be
> ? ? ? ?colMins colMaxs
> ? ? ? ?rowMins rowMaxs
> This is also consistent with S+.

You mean rowMaxes, right?  Or is the rule to add an s, not to pluralise?

I think if you were writing a new package, you'd be better off a whole
new naming convention that extended better to higher dimensions.

Hadley

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