Re: [R] appeal --- add sd to summary for univariates

2006-02-13 Thread Patricia J. Hawkins
 iw == ivo welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

iw just a short beg for the next R 2.3 version:
iw I know it is easy to add the sd into summary() in the source bowels of
iw R---but everytime R is updated, my change disappears.  :-(.  I do not
iw believe that R has an easy extension mechanism for univariate
iw summaries, short of a function rewrite here.  Could this please be
iw added into R 2.3?

Surely this is the sort of change one puts in a profile file,
presumably .RProfile?  Or is there a reason against that?

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Patricia J. Hawkins
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www.hawkinsia.com

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Re: [R] appeal --- add sd to summary for univariates

2006-02-06 Thread roger koenker

On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:34 PM, ivo welch wrote:

 Aside, a logical ordering might also be:
mean sd min q1 med q3 max
 rather than have mean buried in between order statistics.

Just where it belongs, IMHO

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