R devel - Jul 2020 - lapply and vapply Primitive Documentation

The documentation of ?lapply includes:
> lapply and vapply are primitive functions.
However, both evaluate to FALSE in `is.primitive()`:

    is.primitive(vapply)
    #FALSE

    is.primitive(lapply)
    #FALSE

It appears that they are not primitives and that the documentation
might be outdated. Thank you for your time and work.

Cole Miller

P.S. During research, my favorite `help()` is `?.Internal()`: "Only
true R wizards should even consider using this function..." Thanks
again!

>>>>> Cole Miller 
>>>>>     on Thu, 9 Jul 2020 20:38:10 -0400 writes:
    > The documentation of ?lapply includes:
    >> lapply and vapply are primitive functions.

    > However, both evaluate to FALSE in `is.primitive()`:

    >     is.primitive(vapply) #FALSE

    >     is.primitive(lapply) #FALSE

    > It appears that they are not primitives and that the
    > documentation might be outdated. Thank you for your time
    > and work.

Thank you, Cole.
Indeed, they were primitive originally (but e.g. lapply() seems
to have become .Internal with
   r7885 | ripley | 2000-01-31 08:58:59 +0100 
i.e. about 4 weeks *before* release of R 1.0.0

Changes made to both 'R-devel' and 'R-patched'.
Martin


    > Cole Miller

    > P.S. During research, my favorite `help()` is
    > `?.Internal()`: "Only true R wizards should even consider
    > using this function..." Thanks again!

;-)

Was hoping for an almost record old bug fix (older than some R users!), but
apparently the documentation bug is only a decade old (maybe only older than
some precious R users)

 
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blame/2118f1d0ff70c1ebd06148b6cb7659efe5ff4d99/src/library/base/man/lapply.Rd#L116

(I don't see lapply / vapply referenced as primitive in the original text
changed by the commit).

Martin Morgan

?On 7/10/20, 3:52 AM, "R-devel on behalf of Martin Maechler"
<r-devel-bounces at r-project.org on behalf of maechler at
stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:

    >>>>> Cole Miller 
    >>>>>     on Thu, 9 Jul 2020 20:38:10 -0400 writes:

        > The documentation of ?lapply includes:
        >> lapply and vapply are primitive functions.

        > However, both evaluate to FALSE in `is.primitive()`:

        >     is.primitive(vapply) #FALSE

        >     is.primitive(lapply) #FALSE

        > It appears that they are not primitives and that the
        > documentation might be outdated. Thank you for your time
        > and work.

    Thank you, Cole.
    Indeed, they were primitive originally (but e.g. lapply() seems
    to have become .Internal with
       r7885 | ripley | 2000-01-31 08:58:59 +0100 
    i.e. about 4 weeks *before* release of R 1.0.0

    Changes made to both 'R-devel' and 'R-patched'.
    Martin


        > Cole Miller

        > P.S. During research, my favorite `help()` is
        > `?.Internal()`: "Only true R wizards should even consider
        > using this function..." Thanks again!

    ;-)

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