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...method. It also has a function summarize that I might like to use in place of summary.data.frame. How would my new methods "drop on top" of R base functions? It appears my functions (summarizeFactors) can find my summary.factor, but R's own summary uses its own summary.factor. ## summarizeNumerics takes a data frame or matrix, scans the columns ## to select only the numeric variables. By default it alphabetizes ## the columns (use alphaSort = FALSE to stop that). It then ## calculates the quantiles for each variable, as well as the mean, ## standard deviation, and variance, and then packs t...