Re: [Rd] Documentation: format of read.table help text (PR#14180)

2010-01-12 Thread William Dunlap
-Original Message- From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of henrik.p...@bio.ntnu.no Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:10 AM To: r-de...@stat.math.ethz.ch Cc: r-b...@r-project.org Subject: [Rd] Documentation: format of read.table help

Re: [Rd] Documentation: format of read.table help text (PR#14180)

2010-01-12 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11/01/2010 10:10 AM, henrik.p...@bio.ntnu.no wrote: Dear R developers, I find the format of descriptions of the arguments in the read.table help text slightly inconsistent. Slightly inconsistent is not a bug. Your bug report is quite likely to be ignored because of that and because

[Rd] Documentation: format of read.table help text (PR#14180)

2010-01-11 Thread henrik . parn
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