From rpeng at jhsph.edu  Wed Feb 11 03:25:31 2004
From: rpeng at jhsph.edu (Roger D. Peng)
Date: Wed Feb 11 03:25:45 2004
Subject: [Rd] Spelling (PR#6570)
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Unfortunately, with English it's conceivable that they're both 
correct.  But the double 't' sounds/looks *more* correct to me.
Of course, this is coming from a native English speaker who is 
generally unfamiliar with the rules of English.

On the other hand:

test --> testable?
arrest --> arrestable?
contest --> contestable?
detest --> detestable?
...

So maybe the single 't' is correct.  Did that clear things up?

-roger

p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk wrote:

> I came across this in connection with an unrelated issue
> 
> 
>>beta[2]
> 
> Error in beta[2] : object is not subsettable
> 
>>beta[2] <- 5
> 
> Error in "[<-"(`*tmp*`, 2, value = 5) : object is not subsetable
> 
> One of the messages must be wrong, but I need a native English speaker
> to tell me which one.
>


[Rd] Spelling (PR#6570)
Roger D. Peng