Paul E. Johnson wrote:
> I handed out some results from glm() and the students ask "how many
> observations were dropped due to missing values"?
>
> How would I know?
>
> In other stat programs, the results will typically include N and
> the number dropped because of missings. Without going back to R and
> fiddling about to find the total number of rows in the dataframe,
> there is no way to tell. Somewhat inconvenient. Do you agree?
In a word: No. R is ``not like other packages'' which spew out
enormous printouts including every statistic known to man and a few
known only to woman. R basically gives you what you ask for, and
assumes you know enough to know what to ask for. It does not
condescendingly make decisions for you and hand-cuff you into doing a
standard analysis.
It also allows infinitely versatile customization with consumate
ease since it is a beautifully designed programming language. It
would be ***VERY*** easy to write a wrapper for glm() to include
the number of dropped observations if you want to include that
information in a ``printout''.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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