From mikek at cires.colorado.edu  Mon Oct 31 22:34:07 2005
From: mikek at cires.colorado.edu (mikek@cires.colorado.edu)
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:34:07 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Rd] Minor typos with UseMethod docs (PR#8269)
Message-ID: <20051031213407.4C3802388B@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Full_Name: Mike Kay
Version: R-patched
OS: Linux
Submission from: (NULL) (137.75.70.37)


Hi,

The following patch cleans up some grammar in the docs for UseMethod
(library/base/help/UseMethod)

-mike

--- UseMethod   2005-09-28 20:06:39.000000000 +0000
+++ /tmp/UseMethod      2005-10-31 21:21:05.534708720 +0000
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 Description:

      R possesses a simple generic function mechanism which can be used
-     for an object-oriented style of programming.  Method despatch
+     for an object-oriented style of programming.  Method dispatch
      takes place based on the class of the first argument to the
      generic function or on the object supplied as an argument to
      'UseMethod' or 'NextMethod'.
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@
      have a class attribute, it has an implicit class.  Matrices and
      arrays have class '"matrix"' or'"array"' followed by the class of
      the underlying vector. Most vectors have class the result of
-     'mode(x)', expect that integer vectors have class 'c("integer",
+     'mode(x)', except that integer vectors have class 'c("integer",
      "numeric")' and real vectors have class 'c("double", "numeric")'.

      When a generic function 'fun' is applied to an object with class
      attribute 'c("first", "second")', the system searches for a
-     function called 'fun.first' and, if it finds it, applied it to the
+     function called 'fun.first' and, if it finds it, applies it to the
      object.  If no such function is found a function called
      'fun.second' is tried.  If no class name produces a suitable
      function, the function 'fun.default' is used, if it exists, or an



[Rd] Minor typos with UseMethod docs (PR#8269)
mikek@cires.colorado.edu