Re: [R] Re: summaries (was: SUMMARY: "elementary sapply question")

2004-06-24 Thread Tony Plate
Posting summaries is customary (or used to be) on S-news, where it was customary to reply to the poster, and not always the whole list. (Whereas on R it is requested that replies be posted to the entire list, which makes summaries less necessary.) However, a good summary can be a very useful t

[R] Re: summaries (was: SUMMARY: "elementary sapply question")

2004-06-22 Thread Ajay Shah
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:42:15PM +0200, Lutz Prechelt wrote: > Ajay, > > thank you very much for picking up that age-old habit of > posting summaries. > > It existed years ago on s-help and I find it is still a great > thing: I would not have bothered to read your original question > nor the a

[R] RE: summaries (was: SUMMARY: "elementary sapply question")

2004-06-22 Thread Lutz Prechelt
Ajay, thank you very much for picking up that age-old habit of posting summaries. It existed years ago on s-help and I find it is still a great thing: I would not have bothered to read your original question nor the answers you got, but I did read the summary -- and I learned something quite int