From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Wed Mar 11 11:08:16 1998
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 12:08:16 +0100
Subject: prob./distr./quant./ran.num:  S compatibility in argument names??
Message-ID: <199803111108.MAA01354@sophie.ethz.ch>

Several of  R's   p/d/q/r (probability/density/quantile/random.number)
functions have argument names different from the ones S(-plus) uses
[e.g., pf(.), rbinom(.)].

Does everyone agree that we want to become compatible here?

Any volunteer for changing this in R?
If you do,
please give us/me a not, and
please get a current snapshot of the R development version from
				<<CRAN>>/src/devel/R-snapshot.tar.gz
e.g.	http://franz.stat.wisc.edu/pub/R/src/devel/R-snapshot.tar.gz

and edit	src/library/base/R/distn.R

and the MANY documentation files (where necessary)

     Beta.Rd
     Binomial.Rd
     Cauchy.Rd
     Chisquare.Rd
     Exponential.Rd
     F.Rd
     GammaDist.Rd
     Geometric.Rd
     Hypergeometric.Rd
     Logistic.Rd
     Lognormal.Rd
     NChisquare.Rd
     NegBinomial.Rd
     Normal.Rd
     Poisson.Rd
     T.Rd
     Uniform.Rd
     Weibull.Rd

in src/library/base/man/*.Rd

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Thanks in advance!
Martin
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prob./distr./quant./ran.num: S compatibility in argument names??
Martin Maechler