src/library/base/man/by.Rd has
\item{INDICES}{a factor or a list of factors, each of length \code{nrow(x)}.} \item{FUN}{a function to be applied to data frame subsets of \code{x}.} 'x' should be 'data' in both. Also, in \details{ A data frame is split by row into data frames subsetted by the values of one or more factors, and function \code{FUN} is applied to each subset in term. the last word was probably meant to be 'turn'. -Deepayan ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel