While you are editing that, you might change its name from 'stderr'
to standardError (or standard_error, etc.) so as not to conflict with
base::stderr().
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch
> wrote:
> >>>>> Suharto Anggono Suharto Anggono via R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org>
> >>>>> on Fri, 9 Sep 2016 16:52:01 +0000 writes:
>
> > In "An Introduction to R" Version 3.3.1, in "4.2 The function
> tapply() and ragged arrays", after
> > stderr <- function(x) sqrt(var(x)/length(x)) ,
> > there is a note in brackets:
> > Writing functions will be considered later in [Writing your own
> functions], and in this case was unnecessary as R also has a builtin
> function sd().
>
> > The part "in this case was unnecessary as R also has a builtin
> function sd()" is misleading. The builtin function sd() doesn't calculate
> standard error of the mean. It calculates standard deviation. The function
> 'stderr' can use 'sd':
> > function(x) sd(x)/sqrt(length(x))
>
> You are right; thank you Suharto.
> It now says
>
> (Writing functions will be considered later in @ref{Writing your own
> functions}. Note that @R{}'s a builtin function @code{sd()} is something
> different.)
>
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