From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Dec 21 07:48:18 1999
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:48:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Manual: writing R Extensions (PR#380)
In-Reply-To: <199912202243.XAA25231@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9912210743520.2393-100000@auk.stats>

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 jens.oehlschlaegel-akiyoshi@mdfactory.de wrote:

> I want to thank you *very much* for the new "Writing R Extensions" manual
> published with RW0.901 and hope this is the right place to report some

It's not really new: it is a merge of the old Manual.tex and
R-external.texi that was distributed with 0.90.0. As 1.0 approaches we
are beginning to work hard on documentation.

> possible typos.
> 
> 
> page 17, example given in the middle of the page, I think it should read
> 
> REAL(version) = 3.0;
>      ^^^^^^^

Thanks.

> page 23, second example, I think the parameter definition should read
> 
> SEXP lapply2(SEXP list, SEXP fn, SEXP rho)
>                              ^^

The intention here was that the parameter be`expr' (it is an expression not
a function) and I have changed all uses of fn to expr. Unfortunately,
I tested it using `fn'.


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Manual: writing R Extensions (PR#380)
Prof Brian D Ripley