[R] Newbie question: histogram

[John Fox]

Dear Simon,

At 01:45 PM 2/5/2004 +0000, Simon Fear wrote:
>It's not world shattering but for the record the following is not true:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Fox [mailto:jfox at mcmaster.ca]
> > (snip)
> > In particular, although using with() is perhaps less ambiguous, it is
> > necessary to repeat it for each command.
>
>You can group as many commands as you like, as in
>
> > df <- data.frame(x=1:10, y=1:10)
> > with(df, {print(x)
>+ print(y)})
>  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
>  [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
>

Indeed, and doing so can be useful, but in analyzing data interactively, 
one generally types a command (or two), examines the output, and then types 
another. Frankly, it's not so much the typing (as Doug Bates pointed out, 
one can recover previous commands) as the inability to forget about the 
data frame that seems the issue to me (and a small one at that).

Regards,
  John

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John Fox
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
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