[R] ?any

[(Ted Harding)]

On 09-Jan-2012 R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a silly question about documentation, but might it make
> sense to change the documentation for ?any [1] to be "Are any
> values true?" rather than "are some"
> 
> It'd be more consistent with the function name and with ?all,
> as well as reading more precisely (to my ear at least)
> 
> Anyway, of no consequence whatsoever, just noticed it when
> looking something else up. 
> 
> Michael Weylandt
> 
> [1] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/any.html

You afre presumably referring to the header line on that page,
since the main text is explicit about "Given a set of logical
vectors, is at least one of the values true?"

That said, I agree with Michael that the purpose of "any" could
be better worded. And I would suggest that even closer to the
point would be "Is any value true?" rather than "Are any values true?"

Ted.
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E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at wlandres.net>
Date: 09-Jan-2012
Time: 01:28:24

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