[Rd] Trivial patch for merge.Rd

2016-06-08 Thread Marc Schwartz
Hi all, After replying to r-help earlier today on the merge() related thread, I noted a trivial grammatical error in the description for the 'suffixes' argument in it's help file. A patch against the current SVN trunk version of merge.Rd in ..library/base/man is attached and pasted here: ---

Re: [Rd] Small mistake in ?raw

2016-06-08 Thread Martin Maechler
> Mikko Korpela > on Tue, 7 Jun 2016 12:41:54 +0300 writes: > In ?raw (src/library/base/man/raw.Rd), the final line of Examples seems > to be off: >> isASCII("\x9c25.63") # false (in Latin-1, this is an amount in UK pounds) > The character "\x9c" is a control charac

Re: [Rd] readlines() truncates text file with Codepage 437 encoding

2016-06-08 Thread Martin Maechler
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