[Rd] British or American spelling?
Gordon Smyth
smyth at wehi.edu.au
Sun Apr 27 16:20:04 MEST 2003
I was curious to read the following in the "Guidelines for Rd files" at
http://developer.r-project.org/Rds.html:
"For consistency, aim to use British (rather than American) spelling.
(NB: British spelling often uses -ize as in `capitalize'. The view of
spell -b
of British spelling is a flawed American one. There are English/Scottish
differences too.)"
because R seems to use American spellings throughout, e.g., "color" instead
of "colour".
What is the current R-devel view on this?
Gordon
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