Rolf Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:59:29AM CEST]:
>
> On 1/05/2008, at 4:40 PM, Johannes Hüsing wrote:
[...]
> >
> >When you do the following:
> >
> >for (i in 1:100) {
> > summary(rnorm(80))}
> >
> >what output do you get?
>
> He'd get nothing at all.
>
That's the point.
> Did you ***try*** your code?
>
> >And all this output
>
> ``All this output''! Consisting of the empty set !!!
>
Hm, I thought this group would be mathematically inclined enough not
to single out the empty set as a special case.
> >is redirected to your file by sink(), so it works
> >as expected.
>
> That all depends on what you expect, I guess.
I upgraded my expectations after keying ?sink and reading.
> Most people
> would expect to get some output. As Tony expected.
>
I readily concede that your answer was taking it easier on the
beginner than mine.
--
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One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture
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