> 1. Add "head" and "tail" to R base. > Patrick Burns has these: > http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/public.html#genutil > Very handy functions for checking data manipulation.
How about we just add these to a package available on CRAN? How about we just make a package of the Burns Statistics functions? There are already .Rd files... > 4. Increased integration of text and graphics output (for > PDF, in particular). > Sweave is fantastic for quality reporting, but can be a lot of work > when a quick analysis is all that is needed. > Often I would like to do something like print a box plot > and include an > anova table, for example: > pdf("file") > boxplot(y~x) > frame() > sink.to.pdf() > frame() > anova(lm(y~x)) > sink() > dev.off() > I know of no such (simple) tools. Ben Bolker has a an idea here: > http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/02b/4179.html In gregmisc I have a function textplot which does much of what you want, and I've just added (in CRAN incoming now) a new function sinkplot() which accomplishes exactly what you've asked for. Here is the example: set.seed(12456) x <- factor(sample( LETTERS[1:5], 50, replace=T)) y <- rnorm(50, mean=as.numeric(x), sd=1) par(mfrow=c(1,2)) boxplot(y~x, col="darkgreen") sinkplot() anova(lm(y~x)) sinkplot("plot",col="darkgreen") The only thing that isn't quite right is the default R font is proportionally spaced so the matrix columns don't line up right. I'll need change the default font. [Are any of the Hershey fonts fixed width?] -Greg LEGAL NOTICE\ Unless expressly stated otherwise, this messag...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel