buglet in dist() ?

  the first line of dist() says

 if (!is.na(pmatch(method, "euclidian")))

  shouldn't that be "euclidean" ?

I think not.  The first *five* lines are

    if (!is.na(pmatch(method, "euclidian")))
        method <- "euclidean"
    METHODS <- c("euclidean", "maximum", "manhattan", "canberra",
        "binary", "minkowski")
    method <- pmatch(method, METHODS)

so what happens is that if you enter "euclidian" (which I gather is an 
uncommon but valid spelling) you get the same result as with "euclidean".
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R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
i486-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods" 
[7] "base"    

other attached packages:
   bbmle     nlme
 "0.7.7" "3.1-84"

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buglet in dist() ?

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