>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:57:34 -0400 writes:
> patch against recent SVN ...
> as far as I can tell this trivial typo has been there for 20 years:
>
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/ba7920a99fb2fb62b89e404e65f8b132ed4c150a/src/library/base/man/pretty.Rd
indeed, 20 years and 2 weeks today: then it's good to fix it
finally.
Thank you Ben!
Martin
> ==================================================================
> --- pretty.Rd (revision 74426)
> +++ pretty.Rd (working copy)
> @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
> \item{min.n}{nonnegative integer giving the \emph{minimal} number of
> intervals. If \code{min.n == 0}, \code{pretty(.)} may return a
> single value.}
> - \item{shrink.sml}{positive numeric
> - by a which a default scale is shrunk in the case when
> + \item{shrink.sml}{positive numeric factor
> + by which a default scale is shrunk in the case when
> \code{range(x)} is very small (usually 0).}
> \item{high.u.bias}{non-negative numeric, typically \eqn{> 1}.
> The interval unit is determined as \{1,2,5,10\} times \code{b}, a