On Friday 07 October 2005 21:22, Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote: > [...snip...] > > My guess is you want to have your function fix my.data without having to > reassign it. The answer to that question is most likely a road you do > not want to travel. Otherwise, try searching the archives for "assign > reference" for some clues.
Unfortunately, this is the road I was looking for :) I'll have a look on the archives on that, thanks for the tip. > > Also, I now have another related two questions: > > 1. is it possible to "edit" the contents of a cell when using fix() ? In > > order to change a letter one would have to change the whole string. > > Double-click on the field. > > > 2. is it possible to change the width of a column? > > Right-click on the column then select auto-size column. Or left-click on > a column line and drag to desired width. Oh, silly me. I knew this works under Windows, but I should have specified I run R under Linux (Kubuntu 5.04, KDE). And I also knew that the Linux interface is not as developed as the Windows one, so it's probably not possible yet. Thanks for everything, Adrian -- Adrian DUSA Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html