> My personal oppinion is that mean.data.frame() should never have > been written. > People should know, or learn, to use apply functions for such a > task. > > The unfortunate fact that mean.data.frame() exists makes people > think that median.data.frame() should too, > and then > > var.data.frame() > sd.data.frame() > mad.data.frame() > min.data.frame() > max.data.frame() > ... > ... > > all just in order to *not* to have to know sapply() > ???? > > No, rather not. > > My vote is for deprecating mean.data.frame().
I totally agree! Hadley -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel