[Rd] One for the wish list - var.default etc

[S Ellison]

I was working on a permutation-like variant of the bootstrap for smaller samples, and wanted to be able to get summary stats of my estimator conveniently. mean() is OK as its a generic, so a mean.oddboot function gets used automatically. But var, sd and others are not originally written as generic; they have to be explicitly masked by a package or new declaration.

It would have been nice if stats::var was a generic to make it more easily extensible... one for the wish list?

Steve Ellison

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