[6388] in s-news-athena
Re: S and S-PLUS by Example
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael j dix)
Fri Feb 3 17:26:12 1995
From: michael j dix <mdix@dcssc.sj.hp.com>
To: bob@statsci.com (Robert Treder) (Robert Treder)
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 95 14:04:09 "PST
Cc: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0ra5ll-000VSAC@sail.statsci.com>; from "Robert Treder" at Feb 2, 95 9:56 am
One obvious objective of this book would be to illuminate the uses of the
built-in functions, so users would not have to browse through the
reference manual every week. It would link up
WHAT (the user wants to do) - > HOW (which command or series of commands).
I know the members of this list have worked out many non-obvious ways
to accomplish various tasks. Maybe people should send their favorite
non-obvious uses for built-in functions to Robert at statsci.
One thing I learned by asking the list, that I use all the time, is how
to plot how a parameter changes with time by using box and whisker plots.
(not time series data). The solution was to run "boxes" for data at
each time point - suppressing the plot - and then plot the box data vs. the
read-out times. From the description of boxes (Adds boxplots to the current
plot at the specified locations) I never would have figured out that it
would help me.
Mike Dix
