[Rd] Unnecessary lines in stem.c?

Tomas Kalibera tomas.kalibera at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 15:11:34 CET 2018


Thanks! Cleaned up in R-devel,
Tomas

On 02/16/2018 05:03 PM, S Ellison wrote:
> A discussion on r-help led me to look at stem.c at
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/trunk/src/library/graphics/src/stem.c
>
> Lines 76-77 appear superfluous. They sit inside a condition, and set mu, as follows:
> 	if (k*(k-4)*(k-8) == 0) mu = 5;
> 	if ((k-1)*(k-5)*(k-6) == 0) mu = 20;
>
> But mu is set unconditionally to 10 on line 84, and that is followed by conditional assignments (on line 85-6) identical to lines 76-77.
>
> It looks like a couple of lines got left inside a condition that are no longer needed there. If that is correct, is it worth removing the superfluous lines, for future coders' benefit?
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> S Ellison
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