documentation for require (PR#2226)

maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 14:43:31 +0100 (MET)


>>>>> "AlecS" == a stephenson <a.stephenson@lancaster.ac.uk>
>>>>>     on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:20:11 +0100 (MET) writes:


    AlecS> The documentation for the function require is incorrect.

yes.  Thank you very much for the (two) report(s)!

I'm about to commit the following change      

diff -w -r1.54 library.Rd
64,65c64,65
<   \item{quietly}{a logical.  If \code{TRUE}, a warning will not be
<     printed if the package cannot be found.}
---
>   \item{quietly}{a logical.  If \code{TRUE}, no message confirming
>       package loading is printed.}
83,84c83,84
<   inside other functions; it returns \code{FALSE} and optionally gives a
<   warning, rather than giving an error, if the package does not exist.
---
>   inside other functions; it returns \code{FALSE} and gives a warning
>   (rather than an error as \code{library()}) if the package does not exist.

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Thank you again.
Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/

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