--- MARK LEEDS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > these people/experts provide all these packages and > documentation as a FAVOR > and for the fact that they enjoy spreading > knowledge/statistical computing > abilities etc. It's not their job so I think > criticism of the docs and the > fact that they use a variable from another place is > kind of harsh. > > Mark >
I am very appeciative of the time, expertise and great helpfulness that I have seen in the R community. If there is no criticism of R then how do we find out about problems that may exist? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "R R-help" <r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch> > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:59 PM > Subject: Re: [R] aggregate example : where is the > state.region variable? > > > > > > --- Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Its not part of state.x77. Its a completely > >> separate variable. > >> Try ls("package:datasets") and notice its in the > >> list > >> or try ?state.region and note that its a variable > in > >> datasets. > > > > Thanks. I was wondering if it was going something > like > > that. > > > > However, it is a bloody stupid example, at least > to a > > newbie. A call to another data.set in what is > > supposed to be a simple example is very confusing. > > > > When someone is apparently illustrating a function > > with a simple one line command I don't expect them > to > > call another data set, apparently create a new > > variable (Region), and use that new variable as > the > > grouping variable without a word of explanation of > > what the example is doing. > > > > If I sound a bit annoyed it is because I am. It > might > > be nice to have an example illlustate the > funtion,not > > do a couple of other undocumented things as well. > >> > >> > >> On 8/21/06, John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > I was looking ?aggregate and ran the first > example > >> > > >> > aggregate(state.x77, list(Region = > state.region), > >> > mean) > >> > > >> > The variables in state.x77 appear to be : > >> > > state.x77 > >> > Population Income Illiteracy Life Exp Murder HS > >> Grad > >> > Frost Area > >> > > >> > Where is the "state.region" variable coming > from? > >> > > >> > ______________________________________________ > >> > 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 > >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > >> reproducible code. > >> > > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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 > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > > > > > ______________________________________________ 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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.