R-alpha: This weeks bugs and requests for enhancements

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Here's a number of items that came up in connection with my course for 
medical ph.d. students this week:

boxplot():
        - deals ungracefully with empty groups and factor levels not
	present in grouping variable.
        - no indication of what variable is being plotted

data.entry() (mostly W95 rseptbeta problems)
        - Entry of first variable name doesn't take before 2nd
        name is entered.
        - data.entry(BW,RMR) gives two columns named BW. Quitting
	dataeditor at that point *overwrites* BW with RMR!
        - inserting NA is only possible by switching to character
	values, entering invalid number, and switching back to numeric
        - blanking a field, then exiting dataeditor crashed one system
	(I *think*)

        Req.f.enhancem.:
        - insert/delete rows (in single column *and* range of columns)
        - undo facilities and "panic button"
        - use comma as decimal point (Nat.variant of W95 maps Keypad
	period to comma)
        - switch between vertical/horizontal cell cursor movement on
	Enter.

Misc:
	quantile() labels results as % rounded to integer, which is
	kind of confusing when 2.5% and 97.5% is one of the first
	things people want to try:
	> quantile(rnorm(1000),c(.025,.975))
	       2%       98% 
	-2.067519  1.891768 

        plot() still has inconsistency with docs in xlog/ylog vs
	log="xy". Which one do we want?

        at some point we want to be able to specify collating
	sequences for sorting character vectors. Case in point: The
	Danish alphabet ends ..uvwxyzæøå , but
        > sort(c("æ","ø","å"))
        [1] "å" "æ" "ø"
        (No such thing as a universal collating seq. E.g. Norwegian
	has the same three letters in a different order. So it should
	probably be via options(collate=..).

        The ~ notation could be used more consistently, in particular
	in t.test and friends.


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