summary.table parameter bug (PR#2514)

Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

parameter <- prod(sapply(m, length)) - (sum(sapply(m, length) - 1) + 1)

Running Version 1.5-0, 2002-04-28 for Windows.

So that's 4 versions old already. I don't know if this has changed (you
don't make it easy for us by providing an example), but I do know that
around 170 bugs have been fixed, so please update.

We do expect people to test the latest version before filing a bug report.
It takes you less time that it takes the volunteers to process the report.

In this case reading the code will do and it is still wrong. Not that
I disagree with Brian's remark in general.

[I think it has been reported before too, but today is not the day to
ask people to check the bug repository.]

I don't feel altogether happy with summary.table generating that test
in the first place. Tables are not statistical model fits - not
necessarily, anyway - so something descriptive might be better. 

Wouldn't it be more obvious anyway to have a separate
independence.test() (or so) for generating the test of independence?

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