Message-ID: <F4535FD0-AA00-44E1-8671-A707867E8F32@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-11-04T12:20:48Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Error in documentation of "merge"
In-Reply-To: <CAGhLh6HUVje5z23wQ4wgQpKn21hcNaZD6gwqTH2LtFYB+h76iA@mail.gmail.com>
On Nov 4, 2011, at 13:11 , Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
>
> there seems to be an error in the documentation of the "merge" function:
>
> Arguments:
>
> x, y: data frames, or objects to be coerced to one.
>
> by, by.x, by.y: specifications of the common columns. See ?Details?.
>
> all: logical; ?all = L? is shorthand for ?all.x = L? and ?all.y =
> L?.
>
>
> The "L" should be a T or a TRUE.
I think it's on purpose: L indicates a logical value, TRUE _or_ FALSE.
-pd
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