I'm not so sure that it is a typo or ungrammatical as much as an awkward way of stating it. Maybe something along the lines of:
The resolution of the times will be system-specific; it is common for the resolution to be on the order of 1/100 second, ... Patrick Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)20 8525 0696 http://www.burns-stat.com (home of S Poetry and "A Guide for the Unwilling S User") [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I just downloaded the file > >ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-devel.tar.gz > >and within proc.time.Rd, the second paragraph of the \value >section contains a typo: > > The resolution of the times will be system-specific; it is common for > them to be recorded to of the order of 1/100 second, and elapsed [...] > ^^^^^ > >I'd say replacing "to of" with just "of" would grammatically >fix the sentence. > >Second, the \note{} section for Unix-like machines reads: > > It is possible to compile \R without support for \code{proc.time}, > when the function will throw an error. > >I believe this is ungrammatical and suggest replacing >"when the function will throw an error" with "in which >case the function will throw an error". > >Finally, my comment about ?proc.time is that if across >platforms the returned value is in seconds, then it might >be helpful to readers if this were noted explicitly in the >first paragraph of \value{}. > >My suggestion is in brackets: > > A numeric vector of length 5, containing the user, system, and > total elapsed times [in seconds] for the currently running R > process [...] > >Thank you, > >Stephen > >:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: >Stephen Weigand >Division of Biostatistics >Mayo Clinic Rochester >Phone (507) 266-1650, fax 284-9542 > >______________________________________________ >R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
