[GenABEL-dev] [Fwd: Re: descriptives.trait Patch]

[Yurii Aulchenko]

Nicola,

Thanks for explanation!

> I could infact change descriptives.trait to work in the same way,
> something like
>
> descriptives.trait(srdta~sex)
>
> which might be a little more intuitive, but this solution was quicker at
> least to implement.
>

I think this is very good suggestion, and this indeed looks like a
more 'conventional way

I can not see any reason why not to do this (still, for backward
compatibility, it is important to keep "by.var" argument functional as
well)

best wishes,
Yurii