Message-ID: <CAAjq1mf77uKJXj2y9N57snQGau8PmwY6kJV3+OhosR=KCejJsQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2014-08-05T18:18:40Z
From: Grant Rettke
Subject: Minor documentation change for assign
Good afternoon,
Today I was reading the documentation
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.
The passage (I added the asterisks)
The operators '' are normally only used in functions, and
cause a search *to* made through parent environments for an
existing definition of the variable being assigned. If such
a
looks like it might have wanted to have been phrased as
The operators '' are normally only used in functions, and
cause a search *to be* made through parent environments for
an existing definition of the variable being assigned. If
such a
.
Wanted to share that with the devs, and if that is a wanted change do
people usually submit patches
or what is the preferred mechanism?
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| sessionInfo()
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| R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
| Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0 (64-bit)
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| locale:
| [1] en_US/en_US/en_US/C/en_US/en_US
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| attached base packages:
| [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
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| loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
| [1] compiler_3.1.1 tools_3.1.1
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Kind regards,
Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
gcr at wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
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