From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Mar  9 08:20:20 2009
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:20:20 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] typo in qpois help (PR#13583)
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Thank you, changed in R-patched and R-devel now.

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, manikandan_narayanan at merck.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Manikandan Narayanan
> Version: 2.8.1
> OS: Linux
> Submission from: (NULL) (155.91.45.231)
>
>
> Here is an excerpt from qpois help page (?qpois):
>
>     The quantile is left continuous: 'qgeom(q, prob)' is the largest
>     integer x such that P(X <= x) < q.
>
>  I think the "qgeom" here should be "qpois" instead. Please correct this typo
> in ?qpois, since it's misleading in its current form.
>
> Thanks!
>
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[Rd] typo in qpois help (PR#13583)
Prof Brian Ripley