[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjørn-Helge Mevik) writes: > Sean O'Riordain writes: > > > Actually, I've started reading the reference manual... :-) > > > > I printed it out 2-to-a-page and I'm working my way through it, > > Ah! This reminds me of the `good old days', reading the Emacs manual, > Emacs lisp manual, Gnu C library manual, .... The payoff came in the > section giving the meaning of the C library error codes: EGREGIOUS > means `You did *what*?'. :-)
I actually have a huge list of those. Among the better ones: ECHERNOBYL Broken pipe EFLAT String out of range EGAD Surely you jest EH Canadian user error EIEIO Bug, bug here, bug bug there ENIXON Tape problem ENODICE Error in rand EZ Had been faster on paper (Report from Usenix 1986, EUUG Newsletter) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
