From torsten at hothorn.de  Thu Dec  8 08:51:57 2005
From: torsten at hothorn.de (torsten@hothorn.de)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:51:57 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] typo in `eurodist'
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> I've often wondered about that.

and the copy editor did too :-)

> I've presumed that the names were
> deliberate, so have you checked the stated source?  It's not readily
> available to me (as one would expect in Oxford)?

our library doesn't seems to have a copy of `The Cambridge
Encyclopaedia', so I can't check either. Google has 74.900 hits for
`Gibralta' (more than one would expect for a typo, I think)
and 57.700.000 for `Gibraltar'.

So maybe both spellings are in use.

Best,

Torsten

>
> Does the original author know?
>
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Torsten Hothorn wrote:
>
> > R> attributes(eurodist)$Labels[9]
> > [1] "Gibralta"
> >
> > should be `Gibraltar'.
>
> labels(eurodist) is clearer.
>
> --
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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[Rd] typo in `eurodist'
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