[Rd] quantile always prints names

Vincent Goulet v|ncent@gou|et @end|ng |rom me@com
Thu May 7 17:16:19 CEST 2026


Hi all,

?quantile states:

   names: logical; if true, the result has a names attribute.  Set to
          ‘FALSE’ for speedup with many ‘probs’.

Unless I'm missing something entirely, the "set to FALSE for speedup" part appears to no longer apply. I could trace it back to the introduction of the auxiliairy function 'format_perc':

commit cc003015a4aed96ed49b4f310209d3e75a48eeb3
Author: maechler <maechler using 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41>
Date:   Wed Oct 15 15:55:42 2014 +0000

    format_perc() factored out of quantile.default()  + an RFC on "export"

I'm not sure if the intend is to modify the code to comply to the documentation, or the other way around. ;-) I'm willing to prepare a patch if informed.

HTH

v.


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