Thank you Brian! >> 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.
Yes. >> 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(). :-) What I initially did some years ago was to write summary methods to print out the required informations. Then M. Maechler told me that this is not the purpose of a summary method and I should write a print.summary method for this. Now I realise that I actually just want to print, and I don't really need the extra "synopsis" to be done by summary(). Now is there any recommendation on this? My intuition would be to write a print, but not a summary method. Christian > > -- > 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 > *** --- *** Christian Hennig University College London, Department of Statistical Science Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, phone +44 207 679 1698 [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche ______________________________________________ [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.
