R help - Jan 2012 - ?any

Just a silly question about documentation, but might it make sense to change the
documentation for ?any [1] to be "Are any values true?" rather than
"are some"

It'd be more consistent with the function name and with ?all, as well as
reading more precisely (to my ear at least)

Anyway, of no consequence whatsoever, just noticed it when looking something
else up.

Michael Weylandt

[1] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/any.html

On 09-Jan-2012 R. Michael Weylandt <michael.weylandt at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Just a silly question about documentation, but might it make
> sense to change the documentation for ?any [1] to be "Are any
> values true?" rather than "are some"
> 
> It'd be more consistent with the function name and with ?all,
> as well as reading more precisely (to my ear at least)
> 
> Anyway, of no consequence whatsoever, just noticed it when
> looking something else up. 
> 
> Michael Weylandt
> 
> [1] http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/any.html
You afre presumably referring to the header line on that page,
since the main text is explicit about "Given a set of logical
vectors, is at least one of the values true?"

That said, I agree with Michael that the purpose of "any" could
be better worded. And I would suggest that even closer to the
point would be "Is any value true?" rather than "Are any values
true?"

Ted.
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E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at wlandres.net>
Date: 09-Jan-2012
Time: 01:28:24

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