From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Wed Dec  7 19:21:50 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:21:50 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] typo in `eurodist'
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I've often wondered about that.  I've presumed that the names were 
deliberate, so have you checked the stated source?  It's not readily 
available to me (as one would expect in Oxford)?

Does the original author know?

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Torsten Hothorn wrote:

> R> attributes(eurodist)$Labels[9]
> [1] "Gibralta"
>
> should be `Gibraltar'.

labels(eurodist) is clearer.

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[Rd] typo in `eurodist'
Prof Brian Ripley