[Rd] R-alpha typo in ?replicate ?

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Tue Mar 22 09:07:45 CET 2011


Thank you, 
Ben.

I'm committing the fixes.
Martin

>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:09:29 -0400 writes:

    >   simplify: logical or character string; should the result
    > be simplified to a vector, matrix or higher dimensional
    > array if possible?  The default, ‘TRUE’, returns a vector
    > or matrix if appropriate, whereas ‘signify = "array"’,
    > rather recommended typically, the result may be an ‘array’
    > of “rank” (=‘length(dim(.))’) one higher than the result
    > of ‘FUN(X[[i]])’.

    >   Should this read

    >    ...  whereas if 'simplify="array"', typically
    > recommended, the result ...

    >   ?

    >   Also, ?scan says:

    > multi.line: logical. Only used if ‘what’ is a list.  If
    > ‘FALSE’, all of a record must appear on one line (but more
    > than one record can appear on a single line).  Note that
    > using ‘fill = TRUE’ implies that a record will terminated
    > at the end of a line.

    >   I think a "be" is missing between "will" and
    > "terminated"



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