"Cannot revert it"? Doesn't setting up a new default parameter in the calling
function ("ave") accomplish that?
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peter dalgaard <[email protected]> wrote:
On May 7, 2011, at 17:21 , Hadley Wickham wrote: >> >> Well, ave() uses
interaction(...) and interaction() has a "drop" argument, so >> >>> with(x,
ave(H, Site, Prof, drop=TRUE, FUN=function(y)y-min(y))) >> [1] 8 0 51 0 33 22
21 0 > > I don't understand why this isn't the default. > > Hadley Defensive
programming, maybe? It's not the default for interaction(), which makes sense,
and if you pass a non-default option, you cannot revert it. Not that I can
think up a case where you'd actually want to process the empty levels either.
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