>>>>> "Ramon" == Ramón Casero Cañas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:03:37 +0100 writes:
Ramon> I am not sure whether I'm doing something wrong or
Ramon> there is a bug in the documentation of
Ramon> ks.test. Following the posting guide, as I'm not
Ramon> sure, I haven't found this in the bug tracker, and
Ramon> the R FAQ says that stats is an Add-on package of
Ramon> R, I think this is the place to send it.
well "stats" is not exactly what we'd call an "Add-on package".
You cannot get an R installation without it.
Ramon> ?ks.test provides the example
Ramon> <QUOTE>
Ramon> # Does x come from a shifted gamma distribution with shape 3 and scale
2?
Ramon> ks.test(x+2, "pgamma", 3, 2) # two-sided
Ramon> </QUOTE>
Ramon> Maybe it should say ``with shape 3 and rate 2''?
Definitely. You are right
{and there's a small history to the reason for this "typo",
not really worth of our time though}.
This is such a trivial bug fix that it can even be applied to
the code-frozen R 2.2 beta.
Thank you, Ramón!
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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