[Rd] [PATCH] suggestions for R-lang manual

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at princeton.edu> wrote:
> Attached is a patch with suggestions for the R-lang manual at r64277.
>
> Below are a few comments (some are implemented in the patch):
>
> In the section "Objects", there is a table introduced by "The
> following table describes the possible values returned by typeof". One
> of the results is "any". Can "any" be returned by "typeof()" ?
>
> Regarding the "Recycling rules" section,
>
> -One exception is that when adding vectors to matrices, a warning is not
> -given if the lengths are incompatible.
> - at c Is that a bug?
> -
>
> was this a bug that was fixed? I see the following behavior:
>
>> myvec <- 1:3
>> mymat <- matrix(1:12, ncol=2)
>> myvec <- 1:5
>> myvec + mymat
>      [,1] [,2]
> [1,]    2    9
> [2,]    4   11
> [3,]    6   13
> [4,]    8   15
> [5,]   10   12
> [6,]    7   14
> Warning message:
> In myvec + mymat :
>   longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length
>>
>
> Regarding
>
> -The arguments in the call to the generic are rematched with the
> -arguments for the method using the standard argument matching mechanism.
> -The first argument, i.e.@: the object, will have been evaluated.
> -
>
> this information is duplicated. See a few paragraphs up "When the
> method is invoked it is called..."
>
> Scott
>
>
> --
> Scott Kostyshak
> Economics PhD Candidate
> Princeton University

The patch still applies cleanly (one offset) on r65090.

Best,

Scott


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Scott Kostyshak
Economics PhD Candidate
Princeton University