On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Christian Hennig wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm updating my fpc package at the moment and will add some new functions. > I learned that there should be print and summary methods for the key > functions.
for 'classes', I think. > The purpose of the summary methods seems to be to reduce the > possibly incredibly complex information in the function's output and the > print method (print.summary.foo) should print an overview of the result. Normally, summary() gives more information than print() would give for a non-data object, often by manipulations on the object. Now, the White Book said that summary produces `a synopsis of an object', but that does not seem to be the practice for model-fitting classes even in the White Book (but it is for data objects). > But in some cases the print method will make use of more or less all the > output information of the function. Is there any reason to implement a > summary method in these cases? Would a more concise print() method be useful? If so the existing print() could become summary(). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
