[R] boot package question: sampling on factor, not row

[Thomas W Blackwell]

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Thomas W Blackwell wrote:
>
> > The second argument to  boot(),  called 'statistic', can be
> > any user-written function you want to cook up, with additional
> > arguments being passed to it through the '...' mechanism after
> > all of the named arguments.  (See: `R-intro `Writing your own
> > functions `The ellipsis argument  for details.)
>
> > I've given you the reference for the '...' mechanism, because
> > that reference is almost impossible to find using  help.search().
>
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> Right, as help.search `allows for searching the help system'. It does not
> search the manuals, nor the FAQs, so it would be imposible to find things
> not in the help system.
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>

Precisely my point, Brian.  The usage and meaning of '...' are
almost impossible to find in the help system.  Could there be a
help page for it ?  Questions about '...' are reasonably frequently
asked on this list.

While we're at it, what could be done so that  help.search("logistic")
returns a reference to  glm()  and  help.search("regression") returns
references to both  lm()  and  glm() ?

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -