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typo in ?pie

5 messages · Martyn Plummer, Brian Ripley, Spencer Graves +1 more

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Hello: 

      The help page for 'pie' includes "judgements";  the standard 
spelling does not include "e", as spell checkers have informed me many 
times. 

      ... in case someone wants to correct that typo. 

      Best Wishes,
      Spencer

 sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United 
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] mgcv_1.4-1
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My Concise Oxford Dictionary has both spellings.

Quoting Spencer Graves <spencer.graves at pdf.com>:
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Spencer Graves wrote:

            
judgement, judgment

  1. a. The action of trying a cause in a court of justice; trial. (Now 
rare or merged in 3.) Also applied to trial by battle (quot. 1377: see 
BATTLE n. 2) or ordeal (Judgement of God).
...

(The header of the entry means that 'judgement' is preferred but 
'judgment' is an alternative spelling.)

So we do not want to change a preferred spelling into an alternative one. 
(dictionary.reference.com says it is also correct in American but there 
'judgment' is preferred and 'judgement' is 'mainly British'.)

'British' spelling is in the majority amongst R-core, and preferred for R 
documentation (that is in the guidelines somewhere).

  
    
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Hi, Prof. Ripley: 

      Thanks for correcting me. 

      Best Wishes,
      Spencer
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
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G'day Brian,

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:07:44 +0000 (GMT)
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

            
I have a vague memory of a discussion that ended with the conclusion
that words like "colour" should be spelt "color"; at least in function
names and function arguments.  IIRC, this was for compatible reasons
with S/S-Plus.

Does your comment mean that we can send it patches for help pages in
which "colour" is spelt "color" (e.g. lines in package:graphics) and
such patches would be applied?

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

Cheers,

	Berwin