R: Labels for distribution objects

getLabel {distr} | R Documentation

## Labels for distribution objects

### Description

a help function to get reasonable labels for distribution objects

### Usage

    getLabel(x, withnames = TRUE)

### Arguments

`x` | a distribution object
`withnames` | logical: are the parameters (if any) of `x` to be displayed with names?

### Remark

The need for this helper function (external to our `plot` methods) was brought to our attention in a mail by Kouros Owzar owzar001@mc.duke.edu.

### Author(s)

Peter Ruckdeschel peter.ruckdeschel@uni-oldenburg.de

### See Also

`plot-methods`

### Examples

    ## example due to Kouros Owzar:
    foo<- function(law,n, withnames = TRUE)
      {
        data.frame(muhat=mean(r(law)(n)),n=n,law= getLabel(law,withnames))
      }
    ### a function that groups certain informations on
    ##  created with distribution objects
    do.call("rbind",lapply(list(Exp(1),Norm(0,1),Weibull(1,1)),foo,n=100))
    do.call("rbind",lapply(list(Exp(1),Norm(0,1),Weibull(1,1)),foo,n=100,FALSE))

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