R devel - Feb 2006 - Tiny documentation error for ?options (PR#8633)

Hi, people.  The output produced by "?options" contains:

     'expressions': sets a limit on the number of nested expressions
          that will be evaluated.  Valid values are 25...500000 with
          default 1000.  [...]

and a bit further down:

     The 'factory-fresh' default settings of some of these options are
       [...]
       'expressions'          '5000'

Is there a distinction between "default" and "factory-fresh
default"?
If not, then 1000 might be the correct value instead of 5000, as 1000 is 
contained in the list returned by R when given
"options('expressions')".

--please do not edit the information below--

Version:
 platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 arch = i686
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i686, linux-gnu
 status = 
 major = 2
 minor = 2.1
 year = 2005
 month = 12
 day = 20
 svn rev = 36812
 language = R

Locale:
LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, package:utils,
package:datasets, fp.etc, package:grDevices, Autoloads, package:base

This is already corrected in the the development version of R: see

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/base/man/options.Rd

(The FAQ does suggest you check there before sending a bug report.)

It is a question of defaults being changed frequently (because C stack 
overflow was occuring on some platforms) and the documentation being 
behind.

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, pinard at progiciels-bpi.ca wrote:
>
> Hi, people.  The output produced by "?options" contains:
>
>     'expressions': sets a limit on the number of nested expressions
>          that will be evaluated.  Valid values are 25...500000 with
>          default 1000.  [...]
>
> and a bit further down:
>
>     The 'factory-fresh' default settings of some of these options
are
>       [...]
>       'expressions'          '5000'
>
> Is there a distinction between "default" and "factory-fresh
default"?
> If not, then 1000 might be the correct value instead of 5000, as 1000 is
> contained in the list returned by R when given
"options('expressions')".
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
> platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
> arch = i686
> os = linux-gnu
> system = i686, linux-gnu
> status > major = 2
> minor = 2.1
> year = 2005
> month = 12
> day = 20
> svn rev = 36812
> language = R
>
> Locale:
>
LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=C;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=C;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> Search Path:
> .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics,
package:utils, package:datasets, fp.etc, package:grDevices, Autoloads,
package:base
>
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