Dear R developers, I find the format of descriptions of the arguments in the read.table help text slightly inconsistent.
For example, the logical arguments comes in seven different formats, more or less explicit about the consequences of a TRUE (or FALSE): 1. check.names logical. If TRUE then the names... 2. blank.lines.skip logical: if TRUE blank lines... 3. flush logical: if TRUE, scan... 4. header a logical value indicating whether... 5. allowEscapes logical. Should C-style [...] ? 6. stringsAsFactors logical: should character [...] ? 7. strip.white logical. Used only when... First, I believe that a consistent style would make the help text easier to follow. Second, I believe that an explicit style (sth like: "logical. If TRUE/FALSE then...") is more intuitive and thus preferable over the other styles. This might apply to other help pages as well. I fully understand that the choice of style in help text is a matter of taste and not of very high priority. Nevertheless, I just wish to mention it as a potential for improvement. Thank you for your great work with R! Best regards, Henrik R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C [5] LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 attached base packages: [1] grDevices datasets splines graphics stats tcltk utils methods base other attached packages: [1] svSocket_0.9-48 TinnR_1.0.3 R2HTML_1.59-1 Hmisc_3.7-0 survival_2.35-7 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] cluster_1.12.1 grid_2.10.1 lattice_0.17-26 svMisc_0.9-56 tools_2.10.1 -- Henrik Pärn Centre for Conservation Biology Department of Biology Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO-7491 Trondheim Norway Office: +47 73596285 Fax: +47 73596100 Mobile: +47 90989255 E-mail: henrik.p...@bio.ntnu.no ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel