On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Christian Hennig wrote: > 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.
That sounds fine for your purposes. -- 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.
