Re: Candidate stem-and-leaf plot function

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 01/26/2013 01:12 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> I had to change "signbit" to "sign" and use 1/-1 in place of 0/1, 
> respectively.  Is "signbit" your own routine?  Or am I missing 
> something?  That change would be necessary if placed in the base scripts.
Just quickly, signbit is in the current development system 3.7.1+. I 
assume that this
would be released before 3.8.

Also, the sort order for negative stems is, I think, the way it should be,
i.e. the same order as the data.

By the way, I just checked the R function.  It looks reasonable, but 
they chose
to call it just stem().  The is a lot shorter than stem_and_leaf_plot, 
so I think changing
the name would make sense.  I cannot remember why I chose such a long name.

And, I will think about how to show the plot in a plot window.  The 
original idea
was to just use the symbols available on typewriters.  Not so relevant 
today.

Thanks,
Michael