Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44.0304110830040.100930-100000@homer03.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2003-04-11T15:38:55Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: summary.formula: method reverse does not use fun argument
In-Reply-To: <7ewui1bfui.fsf@rembrandt.fdm.uni-freiburg.de>
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Thomas Gerds wrote:
> hi,
>
> recently i discovered the functionability summary.formula, awesome!
It would be useful to say *where* you discovered it -- it is in a package
that isn't yet on CRAN.
> from the help page i understand that method=reverse allows to
> summarize all variables on the right hand side of formula
> (the help page on line 229 wrongly refers to the left? hand side variables)
> in categories which are determined by a single left hand side
> variable.
>
> my problem is that the argument fun seems not to be compatible with
> method=reverse!? every continuous variable is summarized in three
> quantiles.
Yes, that's what the help page says.
It also says that for the default method="response" the response variable
can be multivariate, which seems to be what you want. It says many other
helpful things, too.
-thomas