hi chaps:
a simple suggestion: R tells me who the contributors() are, but this should also tell me where I should mail suggestions to. Is it this mailing list? a repository of suggestions? an individual?
this came up because i wanted to suggest two small enhancements:
the first is for the summary() method for plain data frames. it would seem to me that the number of "NA"s should be printed as an integer, not necessarily in scientific notation. I have also yet to determine when summary() likes to give means and when it does not. (maybe it was an older version that sometimes did not give means). summary does not seem to have optional parameters to specify what statistics I would like. this could be useful, too.
another small enhancement: there are four elementary data frame operations that bedevil novices, so they really should have named function wrappers:
delrow( dataframe d, index=45);
insrow( dataframe d, (row)vector v);
delcol( dataframe d, "name");
inscol( dataframe d, (col)vector v);I looked at my R "bible" (venables&ripley), too, but here too it is not as clear as it needs to be. yes, this may be programmable, but it ain't as obvious as it should be for beginners.
regards,
/iaw
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