[Rd] typo in R-exts

Tony Plate tplate at acm.org
Tue Apr 17 20:56:55 CEST 2007


The actual behavior, as far as I can make out, is that all the files in 
the 'tests' directory are copied, but not any subdirectories (which I 
personally would have found useful).

So, saying the "whole directory" is probably not accurate.

-- Tony Plate

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Tony Plate wrote:
>> There looks to be a typo in the R-exts manual:
>>
>> The whose @file{tests} is copied to the check area, ...
>>      ^^^^^
>>
>> I'm not sure what was intended here, so I can't suggest a fix.
>>   
> 'svn blame' tells me that this was Brian's addition in rev.35362. There 
> is no previous version to help with guessing the intention. One 
> possibility is that "The whose" should be "The directory", or maybe "The 
> whole directory".
>> (from https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/manual/R-exts.texi)
>>
>> -- Tony Plate
>>
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