[Rd] Wishlist: 'append' argument for write.ftable()
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Fri Mar 17 08:55:21 CET 2006
>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen D Weigand <weigand.stephen at charter.net>
>>>>> on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:08:58 -0600 writes:
Stephen> On Mar 16, 2006, at 9:48 PM, Stephen D. Weigand wrote:
>> I would like to suggest that an 'append' argument be added to
>> write.ftable(). This would allow, for example, the user to
>> append ftable() output to a text report.
>>
>> I have attached an svn patch to ftable.R that makes the proposed
>> change to write.ftable(). [A very trivial change since 'append'
>> is simply passed to cat().]
>>
>> I have also attached a patch to read.ftable.Rd which documents
>> the proposed argument (borrowing from cat.Rd).
That's an obviously simple and useful proposal.
It will be in R-devel (R 2.3.0 to be) -- with a slight
modification of putting the new 'append' after the 'quote'
argument:
Will it make less likely to hurt anybody who has made use of
"positional argumenting", i.e., had used
write.ftable(tab, fil, TRUE)
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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