[Rd] print.logLik

roger koenker roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu
Sat Feb 23 18:40:26 CET 2008


Commas would be fine especially if there were  spaces too,
as in your example.  I was just trying to suggest something
mimimalist ;-)

Cheers,
Roger

On Feb 23, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "rk" == roger koenker <roger at ysidro.econ.uiuc.edu>
>>>>>>    on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:34:41 -0600 writes:
>
>    rk> I have a vector of logLik values that I'd like to return and  
> it would
>    rk> be nice
>    rk> if the the print method didn't run them together.  Could I  
> make a plea
>    rk> for
>    rk> using sep = " ", rather than sep = "" in print.logLik?
>
> well, "yes" to the plea to make the method ameanable to better
> printing of *several* values,
> but "no" to just changing sep there:
> We'd want to implement a change which is compatible
> for the usual cases of having only one value
> and your propsal would change all those outputs as well.
>
> Wouldn't you even prefer to see something like
>
> 	 'log.Lik' 12.3, 7.89, 34.2  (df = 3)
>
> i.e., with "," between the values?
>
> Regards,
> Martin



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