[Rd] Wishlist: mention Vectorize in 'outer' man page (PR#10490)

[Peter Dalgaard]

maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch wrote:
>>>>>> antonio fabio <antonio.fabio at gmail.com>
>>>>>>     on Tue,  4 Dec 2007 20:25:21 +0100 (CET) writes:
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>     > Here a possible patch. What do you think about it?
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base64 -di is not THAT hard. I'll apply it to R-devel

diff --git a/src/library/base/man/outer.Rd b/src/library/base/man/outer.Rd
index 9f32b78..75e8c87 100644
--- a/src/library/base/man/outer.Rd
+++ b/src/library/base/man/outer.Rd
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ X \%o\% Y
   \item{\dots}{optional arguments to be passed to \code{FUN}.}
 }
 \details{
-  \code{FUN} must be a function (or the name of it) which expects at
-  least two arguments and which operates elementwise.
+  \code{FUN} must be a vectorized function (or the name of it) which
expects at
+  least two arguments.

   \code{X} and \code{Y} must be suitable arguments for \code{FUN}.  Each
   will be extended by \code{\link{rep}} to length the products of the
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ X \%o\% Y
 \seealso{
   \code{\link{\%*\%}} for usual (\emph{inner}) matrix vector
   multiplication;
-  \code{\link{kronecker}} which is based on \code{outer}.
+  \code{\link{kronecker}} which is based on \code{outer};
+  \code{\link{Vectorize}} for vectorizing a non-vectorized function.
 }
 \examples{
 x <- 1:9; names(x) <- x


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