From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Nov 10 22:07:44 2008
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:07:44 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] typo in ?pie
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Spencer Graves wrote:

> Hello:
>     The help page for 'pie' includes "judgements";  the standard spelling 
> does not include "e", as spell checkers have informed me many times.
>     ... in case someone wants to correct that typo.

>From the OED:

judgement, judgment

  1. a. The action of trying a cause in a court of justice; trial. (Now 
rare or merged in 3.) Also applied to trial by battle (quot. 1377: see 
BATTLE n. 2) or ordeal (Judgement of God).
...

(The header of the entry means that 'judgement' is preferred but 
'judgment' is an alternative spelling.)

So we do not want to change a preferred spelling into an alternative one. 
(dictionary.reference.com says it is also correct in American but there 
'judgment' is preferred and 'judgement' is 'mainly British'.)

'British' spelling is in the majority amongst R-core, and preferred for R 
documentation (that is in the guidelines somewhere).


>     Best Wishes,
>     Spencer
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United 
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] mgcv_1.4-1
>
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[Rd] typo in ?pie
Prof Brian Ripley