On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:54:38 +0000, Patrick Burns
<pburns@pburns.seanet.com> wrote :
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
I knew this happened, but I did not know what people wanted. I can only
see this being used interactively (it at all: I would use page), so that
seems as good as any.
I like Duncan's idea. I doubt I have ever used head on a function
for real, but tail of a function can be handy for seeing the structure
of the return value. I agree that this is only likely to be used
interactively.
Okay, I'll put in those changes (with Brian's improvement). One other
one I'll look at:
If a matrix doesn't have row names, I might add names like '[nn,]' to
it, so I get results like
x <- matrix(1:100,ncol=2)
tail(x)
[,1] [,2]
[45,] 45 95
[46,] 46 96
[47,] 47 97
[48,] 48 98
[49,] 49 99
[50,] 50 100
instead of the current
tail(x)
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 45 95
[2,] 46 96
[3,] 47 97
[4,] 48 98
[5,] 49 99
[6,] 50 100
I just want to be careful that this doesn't mess up something else.
Duncan Murdoch