[Rd] typo in R-exts

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Apr 17 20:57:02 CEST 2007


'whole of', as svn up will show you.

I prefer 'svn praise' myself.

BTW, it is very easy to read @file{foo} as 'file foo', and that is a 
frequent problem.

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Tony Plate wrote:
>> There looks to be a typo in the R-exts manual:
>>
>> The whose @file{tests} is copied to the check area, ...
>>      ^^^^^
>>
>> I'm not sure what was intended here, so I can't suggest a fix.
>>
> 'svn blame' tells me that this was Brian's addition in rev.35362. There
> is no previous version to help with guessing the intention. One
> possibility is that "The whose" should be "The directory", or maybe "The
> whole directory".
>> (from https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/manual/R-exts.texi)
>>
>> -- Tony Plate
>>
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