[Rd] Minor equation fix for ?stats::symnum

Ivan Krylov kry|ov@r00t @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Sat Aug 15 21:43:13 CEST 2026


\sQuote{...} or \dQuote{...} currently don't work inside the plain text
part of Rd equation tags, and they also don't look great when rendered
as LaTeX. The only such use is in ?stats::symnum; neither macro is used
on CRAN. Perhaps it's better to move sQuote() into the \code{} tag?

Index: src/library/stats/man/symnum.Rd
===================================================================
--- src/library/stats/man/symnum.Rd	(revision 90399)
+++ src/library/stats/man/symnum.Rd	(working copy)
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@
   If \code{legend} is \code{TRUE} (as by default when there are more
   than two classes), the result has an attribute \code{"legend"}
   containing a legend of the returned character codes, in the form
-  \deqn{c_1 s_1 c_2 s_2 \dots s_n c_{n+1}}{c[1] \sQuote{s[1]} c[2] \sQuote{s[2]} \dots \sQuote{s[n]} c_[n+1]}
+  \deqn{c_1 s_1 c_2 s_2 \dots s_n c_{n+1}}{c[1] s[1] c[2] s[2] \dots s[n] c_[n+1]}
   where \eqn{c_j}{c[j]}\code{ = cutpoints[j]} and
-  \eqn{s_j}{s[j]}\code{ = symbols[j]}.
+  \eqn{s_j}{s[j]}\code{ = sQuote(symbols[j])}.
 }
 \author{Martin Maechler \email{maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch}}
 \seealso{

Alternatively, tools::Rd2txt could be taught to understand both tags.

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Ivan
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