Re: [R] appeal --- add sd to summary for univariates

2006-02-13 Thread Patricia J. Hawkins
> "iw" == ivo welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: iw> just a short beg for the next R 2.3 version: iw> I know it is easy to add the sd into summary() in the source bowels of iw> R---but everytime R is updated, my change disappears. :-(. I do not iw> believe that R has an easy extension mechani

Re: [R] appeal --- add sd to summary for univariates

2006-02-06 Thread roger koenker
On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:34 PM, ivo welch wrote: > > Aside, a logical ordering might also be: >mean sd min q1 med q3 max > rather than have mean buried in between order statistics. Just where it belongs, IMHO url:www.econ.uiuc.edu/~rogerRoger Koenker email

[R] appeal --- add sd to summary for univariates

2006-02-06 Thread ivo welch
just a short beg for the next R 2.3 version: I know it is easy to add the sd into summary() in the source bowels of R---but everytime R is updated, my change disappears. :-(. I do not believe that R has an easy extension mechanism for univariate summaries, short of a function rewrite here. Coul