From berwin at maths.uwa.edu.au  Tue Nov 11 17:50:16 2008
From: berwin at maths.uwa.edu.au (Berwin A Turlach)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:50:16 +0800
Subject: [Rd] typo in ?pie
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G'day Brian,

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:07:44 +0000 (GMT)
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 'British' spelling is in the majority amongst R-core, and preferred
> for R documentation (that is in the guidelines somewhere).

I have a vague memory of a discussion that ended with the conclusion
that words like "colour" should be spelt "color"; at least in function
names and function arguments.  IIRC, this was for compatible reasons
with S/S-Plus.

Does your comment mean that we can send it patches for help pages in
which "colour" is spelt "color" (e.g. lines in package:graphics) and
such patches would be applied?

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

Cheers,

	Berwin



[Rd] typo in ?pie
Berwin A Turlach