[SVN] r5386 (R)

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Oct 9, 2006, at 11:30 AM, hadley wickham wrote:

>> > 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.

Agreed. How about something like "Collapse Into Groups"?  Or perhaps  
"Group Into Categories"? Or "Group According to Cuts"?
>>
>> 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).
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> Hmmm, ok.  What's wrong with just calling it lines?
>
Nothing I guess, I'll change it. For me, lines would refer to just a  
bunch of disjoint lines, but I guess this would never be used anyway  
in this context, so "Lines" should be clear enough.
Perhaps "Line Segments" might be more accurate.

> Hadley

Haris