Message-ID: <p0rc10l69l3igm327l4kkjoi8eiobop64l@4ax.com>
Date: 2004-01-27T14:55:43Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Another wishlist for R
In-Reply-To: <40158C9E.9060807@pburns.seanet.com>
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