On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > I've often wondered about that.
and the copy editor did too :-) > I've presumed that the names were > deliberate, so have you checked the stated source? It's not readily > available to me (as one would expect in Oxford)? our library doesn't seems to have a copy of `The Cambridge Encyclopaedia', so I can't check either. Google has 74.900 hits for `Gibralta' (more than one would expect for a typo, I think) and 57.700.000 for `Gibraltar'. So maybe both spellings are in use. Best, Torsten > > Does the original author know? > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Torsten Hothorn wrote: > > > R> attributes(eurodist)$Labels[9] > > [1] "Gibralta" > > > > should be `Gibraltar'. > > labels(eurodist) is clearer. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
