From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Wed Dec 30 14:16:21 2015
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:16:21 -0500
Subject: [Rd] typo in src/library/stats/man/family.Rd: names of
 'validmu' and 'valideta' ??
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On 29/12/2015 8:45 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
> under "Details" (version 2015-11-29 r69717; not quite cutting-edge,
> but nothing has changed in src/library/stats/man/family.Rd in 5 months
> [sorry for using the Github mirror, but I prefer the interface ...
> <https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/trunk/src/library/stats/man/family.Rd>])
> it says:
>
> valid.mu: logical function.  Returns ?TRUE? if a mean vector ?mu? is
>            within the domain of ?variance?.
>
> valid.eta: logical function.  Returns ?TRUE? if a linear predictor
>            ?eta? is within the domain of ?linkinv?.
>
> However, the real names of these elements are "validmu" and "valideta"
> (no dots); try names(poisson()) or names(binomial()) and see ...
>
>     Can someone on R-core fix this and save me the trouble of filing a
> bug report ... ?
>
>    Or have I misunderstood something?

I don't think so.  It's fixed now.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] typo in src/library/stats/man/family.Rd: names of 'validmu' and 'valideta' ??
Duncan Murdoch