On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 11:41 -0400, Donald Winston wrote: > Who decides what features are in R and how they are implemented? If > there is someone here who has that authority I have this request:
The R Core Development Team decide on what goes into the base R source code. You have almost zero chance of getting such a thing in base R. I say that for several reasons; i) You haven't provided any code to implement report() or provided a good description of what you would like implemented, ii) R Core like to keep the base source code a small as possible to limit the maintenance burden on themselves, iii) R has the package mechanism so you or anyone else can add whatever features you want to R, have it hosted on CRAN and be available to any R user at the click of a button, iv) your attitude stinks! I could go on, but I feel I'm just feeding a troll at this point. I look forward to seeing your report package implementing a report() function on CRAN in the near future. There are several manuals written which document how to write extensions to the R environment, numerous books on programming in R and several example reporting systems that we've mentioned to you. Check out the R website for these. Learn some R, do some reading, examine those systems that do exist then roll your own function and let us all benefit. I won't hold my breath of course. Whiners are not often doers... Good luck! G > A report() function analogous to the plot() function that makes it > easy to generate a report from a table of data. This should not be in > some auxiliary package, but part of the core R just like plot(). As a > long time SAS user I cannot believe R does not have this. Please don't > give me any crap about Sweave, LaTex, and the "power" of R to roll > your own. You don't have to "roll your own" plot do you? Reports are > no different. If you don't agree do not bother me. If you agree then > please bring this request to the appropriate authorities for > consideration or tell me how to do it. > > Thanks. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel