R help - Feb 2006 - appeal --- add sd to summary for univariates

just a short beg for the next R 2.3 version:

I know it is easy to add the sd into summary() in the source bowels of
R---but everytime R is updated, my change disappears.  :-(.  I do not
believe that R has an easy extension mechanism for univariate
summaries, short of a function rewrite here.  Could this please be
added into R 2.3?

Aside, a logical ordering might also be:
   mean sd min q1 med q3 max
rather than have mean buried in between order statistics.

regards,

/iaw

On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:34 PM, ivo welch wrote:
>
> Aside, a logical ordering might also be:
>    mean sd min q1 med q3 max
> rather than have mean buried in between order statistics.
		Just where it belongs, IMHO....

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>>>>> "iw" == ivo welch <ivowel at gmail.com>
writes:
iw> just a short beg for the next R 2.3 version:
iw> I know it is easy to add the sd into summary() in the source bowels of
iw> R---but everytime R is updated, my change disappears.  :-(.  I do not
iw> believe that R has an easy extension mechanism for univariate
iw> summaries, short of a function rewrite here.  Could this please be
iw> added into R 2.3?

Surely this is the sort of change one puts in a profile file,
presumably .RProfile?  Or is there a reason against that?

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