Strange Results of summary()
Martin Maechler: > > Read the online help ? Read the R-notes, read books about S / S-plus... Can you recommend me a book about S / S-plus? (it's difficult to search for "S" in the library catalogue :-) Perhaps one in German? > > More seriously: > 1) In situations like these, I just look at the R code; > in this case, you'll find summary -> summary.data.frame -> summary.factor > and you'll see that summary.data.frame is > summary.data.frame(object, maxsum = 7, ...) > where ``maxsum'' is the argument you may want to use differently.. > > 2) The online help for summary has been lacking. > R 0.62 will have an improved help page, whose ASCII version I append at > the end. Thanks. First I want to reinstall R with a regex library and readline, then I'll go on trying. > I agree; implicitly we have often assumed that R users > - either know S / Splus > - or are good programmers > Lack in documentation ``proves'' the above. That's the point. It's good to know that you are aware of it :-) Thanks for your help!
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