From maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch  Thu Aug 26 12:44:35 1999
From: maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch (maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:44:35 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Error in ?text (PR#256)
Message-ID: <199908261144.NAA15003@pubhealth.ku.dk>

>>>>> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:45:08 +0100 (BST), Jonathan Rougier <J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk> said:

    JonR> Hi Martin,
    JonR> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Martin Maechler wrote:

    JonR> Just a minor point, but the adj argument in ?text is described
    JonR> wrongly (0.64.1).
    >> What is wrong?
    >> pre-0.65 has
    >> 
    >> \arguments{
    >> ....
    >> 
    >> \item{adj}{one or two numeric values which specify the x
    >> (and optionally y) adjustment of the labels.}
    >> 
    >> ....
    >> }

    JonR> That's odd, because my ?text has the Arguments:

Well, it's not really odd.
As I said my version is "pre 0.65"  which is very much newer than
0.64.1.

This just means that the documentation for  text has been fixed since the
release of 0.64.1...

Thank you anyway for reporting it!
Martin

    JonR> x, y: numeric vectors of coordinates where the text
    JonR> `labels' should be written.  If the length of `x'
    JonR> and `y' differs, the shorter one is recycled.
 
    JonR> labels: character or expression with the text to be writ-
    JonR> ten.

    JonR> adj: character or expression with the text to be writ-
    JonR> ten.

    JonR> ...: further graphical parameters (from `par'), such as
    JonR> `cex', etc.
 
    JonR> Here's the spec. ...

    JonR> platform   sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
    JonR> arch       sparc                 
    JonR> os         solaris2.5.1          
    JonR> system     sparc, solaris2.5.1   
    JonR> status                           
    JonR> status.rev 0                     
    JonR> major      0                     
    JonR> minor      64.1                  
    JonR> year       1999                  
    JonR> month      May                   
    JonR> day        8                     
    JonR> language   R                     

    JonR> Cheers, Jonathan.


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Error in ?text (PR#256)
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