[Rd] Error in ?lowess

Kurt Hornik Kurt@Horn|k @end|ng |rom wu@@c@@t
Mon Sep 7 07:35:17 CEST 2020


>>>>> Duncan Murdoch writes:

Thanks, fixed now.

Best
-k

> The lowess() help page refers to documentation in "src/appl/lowess.doc". 
>   This was moved to "src/library/stats/src/lowess.doc" in 2007.  This 
> patch fixes it:

> Index: src/library/stats/man/lowess.Rd
> ===================================================================
> --- src/library/stats/man/lowess.Rd	(revision 79137)
> +++ src/library/stats/man/lowess.Rd	(working copy)
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
>   \details{
>     \code{lowess} is defined by a complex algorithm, the Ratfor original
>     of which (by W. S. Cleveland) can be found in the \R sources as file
> -  \file{src/appl/lowess.doc}.  Normally a local linear polynomial fit is
> +  \file{src/library/stats/src/lowess.doc}.  Normally a local linear 
> polynomial fit is
>     used, but under some circumstances (see the file) a local constant fit
>     can be used.  \sQuote{Local} is defined by the distance to the
>     \code{floor(f*n)}th nearest neighbour, and tricubic weighting is used

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