patch for 'merge' docs

Roger D. Peng wrote:

Hmm, I see what you mean, and I'd be willing to accept that logic if I
could find a single other instance in the R documentation where that
shorthand was used. But I suppose this might be the only instance
where such a shorthand is necessary.

Could you repeat what the patch was (presumably your mailer claimed that
it was non-text)?

The text could probably improved if it confuses the reader. Most of what
it says is actually implied by the argument defaults (all.x=all,
all.y=all), and it is not perfectly logical anyway (all sets the
_default_ for all.x and all.y, but you can still set e.g. all=T, all.y=F).

I think we could simplify the text to something like

? ? all: logical; Provides a convenient way to set both 'all.x' and
? ? ? ? ? ? 'all.y' (defined below).

-roger

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<khansen at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:

Roger

(I think) L is shorthand for some logical value, ie. TRUE or FALSE. That has
always been pretty clear to me. Your patch was stripped.

Kasper

On Mar 8, 2009, at 18:20 , Roger D. Peng wrote:

I've never quite understood the documentation for the 'all' argument
to 'merge'. I'm pretty sure using 'all = L' doesn't work but I'm open
to correction here. In any event, I've attached a patch.

-roger

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