There is no function called 'maxCol' in 2.7.0, so should 'maxCol' be purged from maxCol.Rd and 'max.col' be promoted from an alias (and the file renamed)? from today's R-devel: /usr/local/src/R-devel> head ./src/library/base/man/maxCol.Rd % File src/library/base/man/maxCol.Rd % Part of the R package, http://www.R-project.org % Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Development Team % Distributed under GPL 2 or later \name{maxCol} \alias{max.col} \title{Find Maximum Position in Matrix} \description{ Find the maximum position for each row of a matrix, breaking ties at random. Dan
small documentation change: maxCol -> max.col in maxCol.Rd?
2 messages · Dan Davison, Brian Ripley
The \name is just the name of the documentation. It does no have to be (and often is not) the name of any function. Further ?maxCol correctly produces nothing. See 'Writing R Extensions' for the formal description of \name.
On Mon, 26 May 2008, Dan Davison wrote:
There is no function called 'maxCol' in 2.7.0, so should 'maxCol' be purged from maxCol.Rd and 'max.col' be promoted from an alias (and the file renamed)? from today's R-devel: /usr/local/src/R-devel> head ./src/library/base/man/maxCol.Rd % File src/library/base/man/maxCol.Rd % Part of the R package, http://www.R-project.org % Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Development Team % Distributed under GPL 2 or later \name{maxCol} \alias{max.col} \title{Find Maximum Position in Matrix} \description{ Find the maximum position for each row of a matrix, breaking ties at random. Dan
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