From gcr at wisdomandwonder.com  Tue Aug  5 20:18:40 2014
From: gcr at wisdomandwonder.com (Grant Rettke)
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 13:18:40 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Minor documentation change for assign
Message-ID: <CAAjq1mf77uKJXj2y9N57snQGau8PmwY6kJV3+OhosR=KCejJsQ@mail.gmail.com>

Good afternoon,

Today I was reading the documentation

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| help('<<-');
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.

The passage (I added the asterisks)

      The operators '' are normally only used in functions, and
      cause a search *to* made through parent environments for an
      existing definition of the variable being assigned.  If such
      a

looks like it might have wanted to have been phrased as

      The operators '' are normally only used in functions, and
      cause a search *to be* made through parent environments for
      an existing definition of the variable being assigned.  If
      such a
.

Wanted to share that with the devs, and if that is a wanted change do
people usually submit patches
or what is the preferred mechanism?

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| sessionInfo()
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| R version 3.1.1 (2014-07-10)
| Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.2.0 (64-bit)
|
| locale:
| [1] en_US/en_US/en_US/C/en_US/en_US
|
| attached base packages:
| [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
|
| loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
| [1] compiler_3.1.1 tools_3.1.1
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Kind regards,

Grant Rettke | ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM
gcr at wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
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[Rd] Minor documentation change for assign
Grant Rettke