> John Mount
> on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:25:50 -0700 writes:
>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 2:36 AM, Martin Maechler
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
>> [Talking to myself .. ;-)] Yes, but that's the tough part
>> to change.
>>
>> This thread's topic is really onl
> On Aug 24, 2016, at 2:36 AM, Martin Maechler
> wrote:
>
>>
>
> [Talking to myself .. ;-)]
> Yes, but that's the tough part to change.
>
> This thread's topic is really only about changing summary.default(),
> and I have started testing such a change now, and that does seem
> very sensi
> Martin Maechler
> on Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:33:58 +0200 writes:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel
> on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:40:05 -0500 writes:
>> It is the old story of defined behaviour and expected outcomes. Hard to
>> change now.
> yes... not impossible though... see b
> Dirk Eddelbuettel
> on Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:40:05 -0500 writes:
> It is the old story of defined behaviour and expected outcomes. Hard to
> change now.
yes... not impossible though... see below
> So I would suggest you do something like this in your ~/.Rprofile:
R
It is the old story of defined behaviour and expected outcomes. Hard to
change now.
So I would suggest you do something like this in your ~/.Rprofile:
R> smry <- function(...) summary(..., digits=6)
R> smry(15L)
Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max.
15 15 15 15
John,
I had raised the matter ten years ago, and I was told that the topic was
already very^3 old
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-September/042684.html
there is some discussion on its origin and also a declaration of intents to
change the default behaviour, which, unfortunately, rema
Concur.
I would argue the issue is more critical when sharing results (say
summary() in a RMarkdown) with our business partners.
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:04 AM, John Mount wrote:
> I was wondering if it would make sense to change the default behavior of
> the following:
>
> summary(1L)
>
I was wondering if it would make sense to change the default behavior of the
following:
summary(1L)
##Min. 1st Qu. MedianMean 3rd Qu.Max.
## 15560 15560 15560 15560 15560 15560
summary.default on numeric values rounds values (not just presentation) to
getOption("d
