From pburns at pburns.seanet.com  Wed Jan 21 12:43:38 2004
From: pburns at pburns.seanet.com (Patrick Burns)
Date: Wed Jan 21 12:42:15 2004
Subject: [Rd] Another wishlist for R
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401211031220.2824-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <400E65EA.2080501@pburns.seanet.com>

I vote utils.

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

>Note that `R base' could mean the base package or the R distribution, and 
>I don't know which is meant.  Could one of you please clarify?
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>The base package in R-devel is much reduced, but these could be a 
>candidates for the `utils' (or perhaps `tools') packages.
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>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Patrick Burns wrote:
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>>Warnes, Gregory R wrote:
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>>>>1. Add "head" and "tail" to R base.  
>>>>  Patrick Burns has these: 
>>>>http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/public.html#genutil
>>>>  Very handy functions for checking data manipulation.
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>>>How about we just add these to a package available on CRAN?  How about we
>>>just make a package of the Burns Statistics functions?  There are already
>>>.Rd files...
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>>This sounds suspiciously like an editorial "we".
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>>I do have plans of a package of Burns Statistics functions, but haven't
>>got around to it yet.  However, I do agree with Kevin that "head" and
>>"tail" are good candidates for base (though I'm not sure it would be
>>number 1 on my wishlist).  "head" and especially "tail" have value in
>>programming as well as interactive use, which I think is a stronger
>>argument for inclusion in base than just being handy interactively.  
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>>Patrick Burns
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>>Burns Statistics
>>patrick@burns-stat.com
>>+44 (0)20 8525 0696
>>http://www.burns-stat.com
>>(home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User")
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[Rd] Another wishlist for R
Patrick Burns