From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Apr 30 17:03:46 2007
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:03:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] Rscript.Rd example (PR#9644)
Message-ID: <20070430150346.7DDB75ABF9@slim.kubism.ku.dk>


On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, S.J.Eglen at damtp.cam.ac.uk wrote:

> One of the examples in Rscript.Rd seems mis-formatted, in that the
> format statement is incomplete:
>
>     ## Not run:
>     Rscript -e 'date()' -e 'format(Sys.time(), "
>
> Both Rscript.Rd in R 2.5.0 and the version at:
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/utils/man/Rscript.Rd
> have
>
> Rscript -e 'date()' -e 'format(Sys.time(), "%a %b %d %X %Y")'
>
> Do the % need replacing with \% ?

Yes, thank you.  The other example needs updating, too.

>
> Stephen
>
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
> i686-pc-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "graphics"  "methods"
> [7] "base"
>>
>
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[Rd] Rscript.Rd example (PR#9644)
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