[Rd] median and data frames

[Hadley Wickham]

> My personal oppinion is that  mean.data.frame() should never have
> been written.
> People should know, or learn, to use apply functions for such a
> task.
>
> The unfortunate fact that mean.data.frame() exists makes people
> think that median.data.frame() should too,
> and then
>
>  var.data.frame()
>   sd.data.frame()
>  mad.data.frame()
>  min.data.frame()
>  max.data.frame()
>  ...
>  ...
>
> all just in order to *not* to have to know  sapply()
> ????
>
> No, rather not.
>
> My vote is for deprecating  mean.data.frame().

I totally agree!

Hadley

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Department of Statistics / Rice University
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