Re: [Rd] findInterval Documentation Suggestion

2020-03-06 Thread Marc Schwartz via R-devel
> On Mar 6, 2020, at 9:17 AM, brodie gaslam via R-devel > wrote: > >> On Friday, March 6, 2020, 8:56:54 AM EST, Martin Maechler >> wrote: > >> Note that the * -> LaTex -> PDF rendered version looks a bitnicer. > > Ah yes, that does indeed look quite a bit nicer. > >> I wrote the functio

Re: [Rd] findInterval Documentation Suggestion

2020-03-06 Thread brodie gaslam via R-devel
> On Friday, March 6, 2020, 8:56:54 AM EST, Martin Maechler > wrote: > Note that the  * -> LaTex -> PDF rendered version looks a bitnicer. Ah yes, that does indeed look quite a bit nicer. > I wrote the function and that help page originally. And thank you for doing so. It is a wonderful fu

Re: [Rd] findInterval Documentation Suggestion

2020-03-06 Thread Martin Maechler
> brodie gaslam via R-devel > on Thu, 5 Mar 2020 22:18:33 + (UTC) writes: > I've found over time that R documentation that comes off as terse at > first blush is usually revealed to be precise, concise, and complete > on close reading.  I'm sure this is also true of `?

Re: [Rd] findInterval Documentation Suggestion

2020-03-05 Thread brodie gaslam via R-devel
Trying the attachment as .txt instead of Rd. On Thursday, March 5, 2020, 5:20:25 PM EST, brodie gaslam via R-devel wrote: % File src/library/base/man/findInterval.Rd % Part of the R package, https://www.R-project.org % Copyright 1995-2020 R Core Team % Distributed under GPL 2 or later \name

[Rd] findInterval Documentation Suggestion

2020-03-05 Thread brodie gaslam via R-devel
I've found over time that R documentation that comes off as terse at first blush is usually revealed to be precise, concise, and complete on close reading.  I'm sure this is also true of `?findInterval`, but for whatever reason my brain simply refuses to extract meaning from it. Part of the proble