On 10/9/2011 6:18 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Sometimes it is better not to document things than try to give precise details which may get changed *and* there will be useRs who misread (and maybe even file bug reports on their misreadings). The source is the ultimate documentation.
I can't agree with this less. The source does the computation. The documentation says how to use it and what it should do. Corner cases
can be trapped in code or mentioned in Notes. But the source is only useful if you can easily find it and then can understand what it is doing, particularly for a .Primitive like round(). The source is only the documentation of last resort. -Michael ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
