Peter Dalgaard wrote:
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>>>>>>> antonio fabio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> > Here a possible patch. What do you think about it?
>>
>> attachments don't make it through R-bugs -> R-devel correctly.
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>> Please use cut & paste instead.
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> base64 -di is not THAT hard. I'll apply it to R-devel
>
(The patch, not base64, or course...).
Done. Actually, I ended up polishing a bit more:
--- src/library/base/man/outer.Rd (revision 43598)
+++ src/library/base/man/outer.Rd (working copy)
@@ -26,13 +26,15 @@
\item{\dots}{optional arguments to be passed to \code{FUN}.}
}
\details{
- \code{FUN} must be a function (or the name of it) which expects at
- least two arguments and which operates elementwise.
-
\code{X} and \code{Y} must be suitable arguments for \code{FUN}. Each
will be extended by \code{\link{rep}} to length the products of the
lengths of \code{X} and \code{Y} before \code{FUN} is called.
+ \code{FUN} is called with these two extended vectors as
+ arguments. Therefore, it must be a vectorized function (or the
+ name of one), expecting at
+ least two arguments.
+
Where they exist, the [dim]names of \code{X} and \code{Y} will be
copied to the answer, and a dimension assigned which is the
concatenation of the dimensions of \code{X} and \code{Y} (or lengths
@@ -54,7 +56,8 @@
\seealso{
\code{\link{\%*\%}} for usual (\emph{inner}) matrix vector
multiplication;
- \code{\link{kronecker}} which is based on \code{outer}.
+ \code{\link{kronecker}} which is based on \code{outer};
+ \code{\link{Vectorize}} for vectorizing a non-vectorized function.
}
\examples{
x <- 1:9; names(x) <- x
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