dear r experts:
I know its almost surely documented. if d is a data frame
median(d) -- fails (message is need numeric data)
min(d) -- succeeds, but gives a scalar.
mean(d) -- gives a vector
I am wondering whether this could be changed into something more
consistent. most naturally, the
One can use sapply to get a consistent set of idioms despite the underlying
inconsistency of the functions themselves (using the builtin dataset anscombe):
sapply(anscombe, median)
sapply(anscombe, min)
sapply(anscombe, mean)
On 12/28/06, ivo welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dear r experts:
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