From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Wed Jun 14 14:05:38 2000
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:05:38 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Typo in the documentation of prcomp. (PR#569)
Message-ID: <200006141305.OAA28754@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>

> From: Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk>
> Date: 14 Jun 2000 14:36:13 +0200
> 
> 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

I've just fixed rather a lot of typos ....

> > 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.

I think I have found a way ....

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[Rd] Typo in the documentation of prcomp. (PR#569)
Prof Brian Ripley