[R] period in scale parameter of prcomp

Greg Hirson ghirson at ucdavis.edu
Fri May 13 19:57:47 CEST 2011


Hi all,

Looking at the help file for prcomp and the code in
stats:::prcomp.default, the scale parameter for the default S3 method
has a trailing period: it written as

scale.

I assume there is a reason for it (backwards compatibility with S was
suggested) but I thought I'd ask.

Thanks,
Greg

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