From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Jun 14 13:36:13 2000
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 14 Jun 2000 14:36:13 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Typo in the documentation of prcomp. (PR#569)
In-Reply-To: bhm@math.uio.no's message of "Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:15:57 +0200 (MET DST)"
References: <200006141215.OAA07492@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <x2aegowibm.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

bhm@math.uio.no writes:

> The help for prcomp on R 1.0.0 states that the component sdev of the
> return value is the eigenvalues of the cov matrix.  Am I completely
> mistaken, or should this be the _square root_ of the eigenvalues?

Yup. Will fix for 1.1.0

> Also, the documentation is not very clear about how tol is used to omit
> components.  (The _code_ is clear, though. :-)

Hmm. Can't think of a concise way of saying this. Hardly something
that needs fixing here and now.

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[Rd] Typo in the documentation of prcomp. (PR#569)
Peter Dalgaard BSA