[R] html documentation bug in: help(par), 'las'

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is in the R-bugs repository (PR#1257) and I fixed it yesterday.


On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Kaspar Pflugshaupt wrote:

> Currently (R-1.4.1 as well as R-devel, according to
> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-alpha/R-devel/library/base/html/par.html), the html
> version of help(par) shows
>
> [...]
>
> lab
>    A numerical vector of the form c(x, y, len) which modifies the way that
>    axes are annotated. The values of x and y give the (approximate) number
>    of tickmarks on the x and y axes and len specifies the label size. The
>    default is c(5, 5, 7). Currently, len is unimplemented.
> 3:
>    always vertical.
>    numeric in {0,1,2,3}; the style of axis labels.
>
> 0:
>    always parallel to the axis [default],
> 1:
>    always horizontal,
> 2:
>    always perpendicular to the axis,
> 3:
>    always vertical.
>
> [...]
>
> The label for parameter "las" somehow got lost. The text help gives:
>
> [...]
>
>      `las' numeric in {0,1,2,3}; the style of axis labels.
>
>           0: always parallel to the axis [default],
>
> [...]
>
> > version
>          _
> platform powerpc-apple-darwin5.3
> arch     powerpc
> os       darwin5.3
> system   powerpc, darwin5.3
> status
> major    1
> minor    4.1
> year     2002
> month    01
> day      30
> language R
>
>
> Kaspar Pflugshaupt
>
>
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