R devel - Jun 2006 - documentation bug as S-Plus catches up (PR#8933)

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The R documentation for "is.R" says
     "## 'which()' only exists in R:"
This is no longer true.  In S-Plus 8.0
> version
Enterprise Developer Version 8.0.1 Beta 1  for Microsoft Windows : 2006 

both "is.R" and "which" are defined in the splus directory.


Now that coordination with R, including use of the package system, is one of
the Insightful goals, I hope someone in R-core will be monitoring these changes.
Let me know if you want me to post these types of things in the future.
I won't unless specically requested.

Rich

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Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = i386
 os = mingw32
 system = i386, mingw32
 status = 
 major = 2
 minor = 3.1
 year = 2006
 month = 06
 day = 01
 svn rev = 38247
 language = R
 version.string = Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)

Windows XP Home Edition (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0

Locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:grid, package:lattice,
file:c:/HOME/rmh/h2/library/H2/.RData,
file:c:/HOME/rmh/hh/splus.library/HH/.RData, package:car, package:Rcmdr,
package:tcltk,
package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices,
package:utils,
package:datasets, RcmdrEnv, Autoloads, package:base

>>>>> "RMH" == Richard M Heiberger <rmh at
temple.edu>
>>>>>     on Sat,  3 Jun 2006 01:31:48 +0200 (CEST) writes:
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    RMH> The R documentation for "is.R" says "##
'which()' only
    RMH> exists in R:" This is no longer true.  In S-Plus 8.0

    >> version
    RMH> Enterprise Developer Version 8.0.1 Beta 1 for Microsoft
    RMH> Windows : 2006


    RMH> both "is.R" and "which" are defined in the splus
    RMH> directory.

Thank you, Rich, for the update.

Note however that this is a *beta* version of S-plus,
that I'd guess 95--99.5% of S-plus users are *not* using currently.
Here, ETH has been paying a site licence for S-plus for many
years, but we haven't been able to even use S-plus 7.x, because
of problems that seem to make it impossible that the ETH-central licence server
can continued to be used for S+7 (given the current IT
infrastructure & staff).


    RMH> Now that coordination with R, including use of the
    RMH> package system, is one of the Insightful goals, I hope
    RMH> someone in R-core will be monitoring these changes.
[who were you hoping for ? ;-)]

    RMH> Let me know if you want me to post these types of
    RMH> things in the future.  I won't unless specically
    RMH> requested.

I'd say we are thankful if you continue to do so,
to R-devel typically rather than R-bugs,
particularly in border cases like the current one.

Martin

    RMH> Rich