From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Thu Sep  3 18:09:18 1998
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 03 Sep 1998 19:09:18 +0200
Subject: ppoints
In-Reply-To: Martin Maechler's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1998 18:29:06 +0200
References: <199809031629.SAA13963@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <x23ea93yyp.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> Also,  S has the much nicer extra argument  'a'  with the default
> 
> 	if(is.null(a))
> 		a <- if(n > 10) 0.5 else 0.375
> 
> which leads to the behavior you cite below.
> 
> Maybe the S authors would forgive us we just used S' version ppoints()?
> (it's S, not S-plus!)

It's one of those things that are difficult to write in more than one
way... 

Reminds me: Is there any good reason why qqnorm is not using ppoints?? 

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