| Subject: | Add ->summary() and ->print_summary() methods |
On IRC, Su-Shee suggested that:
[QUOTE]
<Su-Shee> rindolf: specifically "the ease" of use and the assortment of
information. e.g. R has a function called "summary" which you call on
your data and it gives you min, max, median, mean, 1st and 3rd quantile
as a report. (because that's the basic information you usally want)
[/QUOTE]
That sounds like something useful so I suggest adding the following
functions:
$self->summary({ %ARGS });
Returns a formatted summary. Some %ARGS are precision (number of places
after the decimal dot), floating-point format, and more in the future.
Returns a well-formatted summary.
$self->print_summary($fh, {% ARGS });
Prints the summary to $fh with %ARGS like in summary, as well as eol =>
0 to not append a newline.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish