[Rd] dots and ldots in R 1.4.0

[Peter Kleiweg]

Peter Dalgaard BSA scribeva...

> Peter Kleiweg <kleiweg@let.rug.nl> writes:
>
> > > > Am I doing something wrong?
> > >
> > > Not really, the checks got stricter. You just need to supply a
> > > line describing what the "..." arguments are for.
> >
> > That is what I did, in \arguments, using \item{\ldots}{}.
>
> Sorry, misunderstood.
>
> It wants \dots. \ldots are for the triple-dots in running text that
> get set in the text font.

I have been looking at the tex-version of the manuals. I see
that both "\dots" in "\usage", and "\ldots" in
"\arguments{\item{\ldots" get replaced by "...". And just
putting "..." in the manual sources and then running
`R CMD check' gives "OK". So why would I need to use \dots in
these places?

-- 
Peter Kleiweg
http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/



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