From palme@uni-wuppertal.de  Fri Mar 20 09:12:11 1998
From: palme@uni-wuppertal.de (Hubert Palme)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:12:11 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Strange Results of summary()
In-Reply-To: <199803200834.JAA09382@sophie.ethz.ch>
References: <199803191334.OAA18974@wrin27.urz.uni-wuppertal.de>
 <199803200834.JAA09382@sophie.ethz.ch>
Message-ID: <199803200912.KAA22659@wrin27.urz.uni-wuppertal.de>

Martin Maechler: 
 > 
 > Read the online help ?   Read the R-notes,  read books about S / S-plus...

Can you recommend me a book about S / S-plus? (it's difficult to
search for "S" in the library catalogue :-)

Perhaps one in German?

 > 
 > More seriously:
 > 1) In situations like these, I just look at the R code;
 >    in this case, you'll find  summary -> summary.data.frame -> summary.factor
 >    and you'll see that summary.data.frame  is
 > 	     summary.data.frame(object, maxsum = 7, ...)
 >    where ``maxsum'' is the argument you may want to use differently..
 > 
 > 2) The online help for summary  has been lacking.
 >    R 0.62  will have an improved help page, whose ASCII version I append at
 >    the end. 

Thanks. First I want to reinstall R with a regex library and readline, 
then I'll go on trying.

 > I agree;  implicitly we have often assumed that R users
 > 	- either know  S / Splus
 > 	- or	 are good programmers
 > Lack in documentation ``proves'' the above.

That's the point. It's good to know that you are aware of it :-)

Thanks for your help!

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Strange Results of summary()
Hubert Palme