The patch below attempts to correct some unclear sentences in the R
documentation.
In the case of coplot.Rd it wasn't clear whether "shingle" bar had a
special meaning or was a typo for "single". I've just put a comment in
that case.
regards
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Index: src/library/base/man/Random.Rd
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RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/base/man/Random.Rd,v
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -u -r1.40 Random.Rd
--- src/library/base/man/Random.Rd 2003/12/09 09:11:10 1.40
+++ src/library/base/man/Random.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:13
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@
represent the type of normal generator (starting at \code{0}).
In the underlying C, \code{.Random.seed[-1]} is \code{unsigned};
- therefore in \R \code{.Random.seed[-1]} can be negative.
+ therefore in \R \code{.Random.seed[-1]} can be negative, due to
+ the coercion of an unsigned integer into a signed integer.
\code{RNGkind} returns a two-element character vector of the RNG and
normal kinds in use \emph{before} the call, invisibly if either
Index: src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd
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RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 strwrap.Rd
--- src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd 2003/07/08 00:20:19 1.2
+++ src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:14
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
}
\details{
Whitespace in the input is destroyed. Double spaces after periods
- (thought as representing sentence ends) are preserved. Currently, it
- possible sentence ends at line breaks are not considerd specially.
+ (representing sentence ends) are preserved. Currently, sentence
+ ends at line breaks are not considered specially.
Indentation is relative to the number of characters in the prefix
string.
Index: src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd
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RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 coplot.Rd
--- src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:22 1.1
+++ src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:14
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
\item{pch}{a vector of plotting symbols or characters. If too short,
the values are recycled.}
\item{bar.bg}{a named vector with components \code{"num"} and
+% what is a "shingle" bar?
\code{"fac"} giving the background colors for the (shingle) bars,
for \bold{num}eric and \bold{fac}tor conditioning variables respectively.}
\item{xlab}{character; labels to use for the x axis and the
Index: src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd
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RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 model.frame.Rd
--- src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:24 1.1
+++ src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:16
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
\item{subset}{a specification of the rows to be used: defaults to all
rows. This can be any valid indexing vector (see
- \code{\link{[.data.frame}} for the rows of \code{data} or if that is not
- supplied, a data frame made up of the variables used in \code{formula}.}
+ \code{\link{data.frame}} for the rows of \code{data} or if that is not
+ supplied, a data frame made up of the variables used in \code{formula}).}
\item{na.action}{how \code{NA}s are treated. The default is first,
any \code{na.action} attribute of \code{data}, second
Index: src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 nafns.Rd
--- src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:24 1.1
+++ src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:16
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
the default, \code{"lm"} and \code{"glm"} methods, and by further
methods in packages \pkg{MASS}, \pkg{rpart} and \pkg{survival}.
- The default methods do nothing. The method for the \code{na.exclude}
- action to pad the object with \code{NA}s in the correct positions to
+ The default methods do nothing. The default method for the \code{na.exclude}
+ action is to pad the object with \code{NA}s in the correct positions to
have the same number of rows as the original data frame.
Currently \code{naresid} and \code{napredict} are identical, but
Index: src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd
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RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 nlm.Rd
--- src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:24 1.1
+++ src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:16
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
\code{hessian} attributes, these will be used in the calculation of
updated parameter values. Otherwise, numerical derivatives are
used. \code{\link{deriv}} returns a function with suitable
- \code{gradient} attribute. This should be a function a vector of
- the length of \code{p} followed by any other arguments specified
- in \code{dots}.}
+ \code{gradient} attribute. This should be a function of a vector of
+ the length of \code{p} followed by any additional parameters specified
+ by the \code{\dots} argument.}
\item{p}{starting parameter values for the minimization.}
\item{hessian}{if \code{TRUE}, the hessian of \code{f}
at the minimum is returned.}