The patch below attempts to correct some unclear sentences in the R documentation.
In the case of coplot.Rd it wasn't clear whether "shingle" bar had a special meaning or was a typo for "single". I've just put a comment in that case. regards -- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd -- Publishing Free Software Manuals 15 Royal Park Bristol BS8 3AL United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)117 3179309 Fax: +44 (0)117 9048108 Web: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ Index: src/library/base/man/Random.Rd =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/base/man/Random.Rd,v retrieving revision 1.40 diff -u -r1.40 Random.Rd --- src/library/base/man/Random.Rd 2003/12/09 09:11:10 1.40 +++ src/library/base/man/Random.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:13 @@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ represent the type of normal generator (starting at \code{0}). In the underlying C, \code{.Random.seed[-1]} is \code{unsigned}; - therefore in \R \code{.Random.seed[-1]} can be negative. + therefore in \R \code{.Random.seed[-1]} can be negative, due to + the coercion of an unsigned integer into a signed integer. \code{RNGkind} returns a two-element character vector of the RNG and normal kinds in use \emph{before} the call, invisibly if either Index: src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 strwrap.Rd --- src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd 2003/07/08 00:20:19 1.2 +++ src/library/base/man/strwrap.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:14 @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ } \details{ Whitespace in the input is destroyed. Double spaces after periods - (thought as representing sentence ends) are preserved. Currently, it - possible sentence ends at line breaks are not considerd specially. + (representing sentence ends) are preserved. Currently, sentence + ends at line breaks are not considered specially. Indentation is relative to the number of characters in the prefix string. Index: src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 coplot.Rd --- src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:22 1.1 +++ src/library/graphics/man/coplot.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:14 @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ \item{pch}{a vector of plotting symbols or characters. If too short, the values are recycled.} \item{bar.bg}{a named vector with components \code{"num"} and +% what is a "shingle" bar? \code{"fac"} giving the background colors for the (shingle) bars, for \bold{num}eric and \bold{fac}tor conditioning variables respectively.} \item{xlab}{character; labels to use for the x axis and the Index: src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 model.frame.Rd --- src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:24 1.1 +++ src/library/stats/man/model.frame.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:16 @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ \item{subset}{a specification of the rows to be used: defaults to all rows. This can be any valid indexing vector (see - \code{\link{[.data.frame}} for the rows of \code{data} or if that is not - supplied, a data frame made up of the variables used in \code{formula}.} + \code{\link{data.frame}} for the rows of \code{data} or if that is not + supplied, a data frame made up of the variables used in \code{formula}).} \item{na.action}{how \code{NA}s are treated. The default is first, any \code{na.action} attribute of \code{data}, second Index: src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 nafns.Rd --- src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:24 1.1 +++ src/library/stats/man/nafns.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:16 @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ the default, \code{"lm"} and \code{"glm"} methods, and by further methods in packages \pkg{MASS}, \pkg{rpart} and \pkg{survival}. - The default methods do nothing. The method for the \code{na.exclude} - action to pad the object with \code{NA}s in the correct positions to + The default methods do nothing. The default method for the \code{na.exclude} + action is to pad the object with \code{NA}s in the correct positions to have the same number of rows as the original data frame. Currently \code{naresid} and \code{napredict} are identical, but Index: src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/R/src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 nlm.Rd --- src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd 2003/12/09 07:24:24 1.1 +++ src/library/stats/man/nlm.Rd 2003/12/09 14:37:16 @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ \code{hessian} attributes, these will be used in the calculation of updated parameter values. Otherwise, numerical derivatives are used. \code{\link{deriv}} returns a function with suitable - \code{gradient} attribute. This should be a function a vector of - the length of \code{p} followed by any other arguments specified - in \code{dots}.} + \code{gradient} attribute. This should be a function of a vector of + the length of \code{p} followed by any additional parameters specified + by the \code{\dots} argument.} \item{p}{starting parameter values for the minimization.} \item{hessian}{if \code{TRUE}, the hessian of \code{f} at the minimum is returned.} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
