[SVN] r5386 (R)

[hadley wickham]

> > Many functions will take a data frame as an argument, or you can use
> > with as a local attach.
>
> Sweet! I didn't know about "with". I think that would do just fine.
> Though I must say that when working in console mode, attach and
> detach are extremely convenient.

Oh, they are convenient, just bad practice.

> > Aggregation involves some reduction of the data - this is more like
> > chopping or cutting (hence the name in R)
>
> Are those  standard statistics terms? In that case,

Not really - however, aggregating is, but with a different meaning.

> I'm basically trying to make it so that someone not knowing the
> command names in R, and the order and names of all the parameters,
> but knowing what statistics they want to do, would be able to find
> them in the snippet menu. That's the one side to it. The other is
> simply saving typing time.

Ok, that makes sense.

> > (Also I noticed you have lines under polygonal lines - lines are
> > not polygons!)
>
> Well, "lines" creates a sequence of joined line segments. I would
> call that a polygonal line (not a polygon, which would be a closed
> such line).

Hmmm, ok.  What's wrong with just calling it lines?

Hadley