Message-ID: <21D6B9B9-C83E-4611-88B7-EB870A26387A@gmail.com>
Date: 2018-11-26T09:41:28Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: wBoot Package
In-Reply-To: <0b07c2d2-af81-85c4-7304-450a198159eb@comcast.net>
This could possibly be a botched attempt at telling "the system" that one could use proportion() as synonymous with mean(). That would obviously fail due to scoping rules, but maybe an earlier version used <<- (?). Anyways, you could take the hint: proportions are just means of 0-1 variables...
> On 26 Nov 2018, at 01:06 , David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The code in the function you are asking about does begin with:
>
> {
>
> proportion <- mean
>
> However, that named entity, `proportion`, is never referenced in code that follows, so it appears that the package author started down one path and then abandoned that line of code and did something else.
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