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Hi, Was wondering if it is possible to pass function name as a parameter, smth along this line param.to.pass<-c(1,'max','h') dd<-function(dfd, param=param.to.pass,...){ ttime.int <- format(ttime,fmt) data.frame( param[3] = tapply(dfd[,param[1]],ttime.int,param[3]), ...) } I know there is a as.formula expression but not quite sure if there is some

Hi Folks, Apologies to anyone who'd prefer not to see this query on this list; but I'm asking because it is probably the forum where I'm most likely to get a good answer! I'm interested in the provenance of the name "normal distribution" (for what I'd really prefer to call the "Gaussian" distribution). According to Wikipedia, "The name "normal