[Rd] extra & in some lines of R KEYWORDS file

Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 17:24:33 CET 2011


The KEYWORDS file (on R 2.13.1 anyway) , seems to have some extra "&" symbols.
Look below at "&" before "character" "complex" "category" and "NA"

?intentional or mistaken? If not mistaken, what do the & mean?

Basics
        sysdata         &       Basic System Variables          [!= S]
        datasets        &       Datasets available by data(.)   [!= S]
        data            &       Environments, Scoping, Packages [~= S]
        manip           &       Data Manipulation
        attribute       &       Data Attributes
        classes         &       Data Types (not OO)
            & character &       Character Data ("String") Operations
            & complex   &       Complex Numbers
            & category  &       Categorical Data
            & NA        &       Missing Values                  [!= S]
        list            &       Lists
        chron           &       Dates and Times
        package         &       Package Summaries


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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
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University of Kansas



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