dear R experts: I am often struggling with a desire of wanting to change the basic output that R prints.
For example, a year ago, I wanted to add the mean to the summary() statement, and eventually got help from friendly souls who showed me how to copy the summary() routine and then modify it. now I would like to abbrev some of the output from summary(lm()). For example, I want to eliminate the "Residuals" output. I also am not quite sure why "Call:" is followed by a new line rather than just with a continuation of the model itself. I also wonder why the word "Coefficients" seems to consume a line without being particularly helpful. I wonder if "Coef" could appear before "Estimate Std. Error" on the same line. All these are changes that would allow me to see more information on the same page. I do know that I can copy the functions themselves, if I can find them, and replace them myself. However, this means that future versions of R may make changes that I may miss completely. Its a solution, yes. However, my first question is---for summary(lm()), would it make sense to have more options that control the output? At least to suppress the printing of the distribution of the residuals? A long-term solution, which is easy to suggest for me given that I do not have to do any work to implement it, would be to allow some templates that specify how output should be formatted. R would first load the system templates, and thereafter any templates that the user specifies (has overridden). The R functions would then work according to the current template. Talking is easy; Walking is hard, of course. Just a suggestion... Regards, /iaw ______________________________________________ [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.
