You're right. But I guess my confusion is proof that it can be confusing.

What about "The value to be returned for positions where there are either no partial matches or multiple partial matches" ?

 ("positions where the number of partial matches is not exactly 1" :-))


On 3/13/21 3:44 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:
I suspect this is as meant, but it is "multiply", the adverb, not the verb. So it might be worth 
rephrasing, but "multiple" would be wrong (it is about cases where you at one position have several 
partial matches, not several positions where you have a partial match). "Non-uniquely partially 
matching", perhaps?

-pd

On 13 Mar 2021, at 01:50 , Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote:

ll. 17-18 of src/library/base/man/pmatch.Rd says "the value to be returned at 
non-matching or multiply partially matching positions".

  I think "multiply" should be "multiple" there?

  Can submit an actual patch if that would be more useful.

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