patch against recent SVN ... as far as I can tell this trivial typo has been there for 20 years:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/ba7920a99fb2fb62b89e404e65f8b132ed4c150a/src/library/base/man/pretty.Rd =================================================================== --- pretty.Rd (revision 74426) +++ pretty.Rd (working copy) @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ \item{min.n}{nonnegative integer giving the \emph{minimal} number of intervals. If \code{min.n == 0}, \code{pretty(.)} may return a single value.} - \item{shrink.sml}{positive numeric - by a which a default scale is shrunk in the case when + \item{shrink.sml}{positive numeric factor + by which a default scale is shrunk in the case when \code{range(x)} is very small (usually 0).} \item{high.u.bias}{non-negative numeric, typically \eqn{> 1}. The interval unit is determined as \{1,2,5,10\} times \code{b}, a ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel