On Nov 24, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Sam Steingold wrote:
* David Winsemius <qjvafrz...@pbzpnfg.arg> [2012-11-23 13:14:17
-0800]:
See
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#How-should-I-write-summary-methods_003f
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summary.difftime <- function (v) {
s <- summary(as.numeric(v))
r <- as.data.frame(sapply(s,difftime2string),stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
names(r) <- c("string")
r[[units(v)]] <- s
class(r) <- c("data.frame","summary.difftime")
r
}
print.summary.difftime <- function (sd) print.data.frame(sd)
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it appears to work for a single vector:
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r1 <- summary(infl$delay)
r1
string secs
Min. 492.00 ms 0.5
1st Qu. 18.08 min 1085.0
Median 1.77 hrs 6370.0
Mean 8.20 hrs 29530.0
3rd Qu. 8.12 hrs 29250.0
Max. 6.98 days 602900.0
str(r1)
Classes 'summary.difftime' and 'data.frame': 6 obs. of 2 variables:
$ string: chr "492.00 ms" "18.08 min" "1.77 hrs" "8.20 hrs" ...
$ secs :Classes 'summaryDefault', 'table' num [1:6] 4.92e-01 1.08e
+03 6.37e+03 2.95e+04 2.92e+04 ...
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but not as a part of data frame:
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a <- summary(infl)
Error in summary.difftime(X[[22L]], ...) :
unused argument(s) (maxsum = 7, digits = 12)
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I guess I should somehow accept a list of options in
summary.difftime()
and pass them on to the inner call to summary() (or should it be
explicitly summary.numeric()?)
In the usual way. If you know that the function will be called with
arguments from the summary.data.frame function then you should allow
the argument list to accept them. You can ignore them or provide
provisions for them. You just can't define your function to have only
one argument if you expect (as you should since you passes summary a
dataframe object) that it might be called within summary.data.frame.
This is the argument list for summary.data.frame:
> summary.data.frame
function (object, maxsum = 7, digits = max(3, getOption("digits") -
3), ...)
how do I do that?
summary.difftime <- function (v, ... ) { ................
There are many asked and answered questions on rhelp about how to deal
with the "dots" arguments.
--
David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA
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