just a short beg for the next R 2.3 version: I know it is easy to add the sd into summary() in the source bowels of R---but everytime R is updated, my change disappears. :-(. I do not believe that R has an easy extension mechanism for univariate summaries, short of a function rewrite here. Could this please be added into R 2.3? Aside, a logical ordering might also be: mean sd min q1 med q3 max rather than have mean buried in between order statistics. regards, /iaw
appeal --- add sd to summary for univariates
3 messages · ivo welch, Roger Koenker, Patricia J. Hawkins
On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:34 PM, ivo welch wrote:
Aside, a logical ordering might also be: mean sd min q1 med q3 max rather than have mean buried in between order statistics.
Just where it belongs, IMHO.... url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820
5 days later
"iw" == ivo welch <ivowel at gmail.com> writes:
iw> just a short beg for the next R 2.3 version: iw> I know it is easy to add the sd into summary() in the source bowels of iw> R---but everytime R is updated, my change disappears. :-(. I do not iw> believe that R has an easy extension mechanism for univariate iw> summaries, short of a function rewrite here. Could this please be iw> added into R 2.3? Surely this is the sort of change one puts in a profile file, presumably .RProfile? Or is there a reason against that?
Patricia J. Hawkins Hawkins Internet Applications www.hawkinsia.com