[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sorry to bother this list with such trivial questions, but I'm > trying to take Prof. Ripley's advice in porting some Lapack wrappers > into my own code, because they are not public. I'm specifically > choosing programs from R-2.5.0/src/modules/lapack/Lapack.c. > > I can't seem to understand the context in functions such as: > > <snip> > error(_("the leading minor of order %d is not positive > definite"), > i); > </snip> > > in functions such as modLa_chol. Is there some place I can look to > understand the usage of the underscore '_', or could someone explain > this to me? > This has to do with internationalization. It signifies that translations are available for the error message, e.g. the file "de.po" in the R sources has
#: src/modules/lapack/Lapack.c:629 #, c-format msgid "the leading minor of order %d is not positive definite" msgstr "der führende Minor der Ordnung %d ist nicht positiv definit" ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel