[R] format of output of residual standard errors of manova()

[Gerrit Eichner]

Dear all,

I wasn't successful in finding any related "bug" or "wish" report on 
bugs.r-project.org, svn.R-project.org/R/trunk/doc/NEWS.Rd, or RSeek 
regarding the following:

The code of stats:::print.aov contains the two commands

cat("Residual standard error: ", sapply(sqrt(ss/rdf), format), "\n", sep = 
"")

and

cat("Residual standard error: ", sapply(rs, format), "\n", sep = "")

which provide the output of the RSEs. However, the RSE-values are glued 
together because of sep = "" in the call to cat(), which makes them hard 
or even impossible to read off free of doubt. (See the respective output 
of npk.aov2 in example( manova) or of fit in example( summary.manova).)

Is it intended to change those lines of code into something like

cat("Residual standard error: ", paste( sapply(sqrt(ss/rdf), format), 
collapse = "; "), "\n", sep = "")

and

cat("Residual standard error: ", paste( sapply(rs, format), collapse = "; 
"), "\n", sep = "")

respectively? (Of course, any other sep-value would be "accepted". :))

If not, I would suggest this modification as a "wish" (and was wondering 
if my next step should indeed be submitting a wish report on 
bugs.r-project.org ...)


  Best regards  --  Gerrit

PS:

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] fortunes_1.5-2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.0.2


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