Re: [Rd] Inconsistency in grid::grid.polyline

Hi The general "evolution" of grid.*() functions (that I have written) have tended towards the grid.polyline() style ... grid.*(...) { grid.draw(*Grob(...)) } With my thinking at least heading towards: if you are calling grid.*(), then you want to actually draw something; if you want t

Re: [Rd] Query: Could documentation include modernized references?

For one point of evidence about how much people pay attention to the documentation about what's outdated: Brian Ripley added a comment to nlminb.Rd in 2013 saying that the function was "for historical compatibility"

Re: [Rd] Query: Could documentation include modernized references?

On 26/03/2023 11:54 a.m., J C Nash wrote: A tangential email discussion with Simon U. has highlighted a long-standing matter that some tools in the base R distribution are outdated, but that so many examples and other tools may use them that they cannot be deprecated. The examples that I am most

[Rd] Query: Could documentation include modernized references?

A tangential email discussion with Simon U. has highlighted a long-standing matter that some tools in the base R distribution are outdated, but that so many examples and other tools may use them that they cannot be deprecated. The examples that I am most familiar with concern optimization and non