[Rd] Documentation: format of read.table help text (PR#14180)

Dear R developers, I find the format of descriptions of the arguments in the read.table help text slightly inconsistent. For example, the logical arguments comes in seven different formats, more or less explicit about the consequences of a TRUE (or FALSE): 1. check.names logical. If TRUE then

[Rd] Wrong links in help help files? (PR#14155)

Dear R developers, ?help.search ...opens a tab in my browser (Firefox 3.5.6, Win XP): http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/html/help.search.html When I click on the link for "?", (http://127.0.0.1:31642/library/utils/help/?) in the last line of "Details", I get an error message: "Server erro

[Rd] small typo in "CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.9.0"

Hi! In the second sub-heading in this document... http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/CHANGES.R-2.9.0 ...INSTALLATION is misspelled (INSTALLATIOM).. Really no big deal, but anyway. Cheers, Henrik -- Henrik Pärn Centre for Conservation Biology Department of Biology Norwegian Unive

[Rd] help text for ave()

Dear R developers, In the help text for ave() you can read in Arguments section: "... Grouping variables, typically factors, all of the same length as x" ...and in Value: "If ... is g1,g2,". I think a description in the Arguments section of how two or more grouping variables is specified toge

[Rd] help text in read.table

Dear R-developers, In read.table() the argument |colClasses = "NULL" can be used to skip columns and col.names to name the variables. The first time I tried to skip columns, I naively thought that /first/ the "NULL"-columns are skipped, /then/ you name only the remaining columns actually speci

[Rd] help text for xlim

Dear R-developers, A student asked me today of how to specify the limits of the x-axis. I knew that he should use xlim, but I tried to encourage him to have a try himself with the various help functions. I do not judge if he used the correct search strategy or right key words, but anyway here