[R] OT --- grammar.

Duncan Murdoch
2018-06-24T22:06:16Z

On 24/06/2018 5:46 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> Does/should one say "the degrees of freedom is defined to be" or
"the
> degrees of freedom are defined to be"?
>
> Although value of "degrees of freedom" is a single number, the
first
> formulation sounds very odd to my ear.
>
> I would like to call upon the collective wisdom of the R community to
> help me decide.
>
> Thanks, and my apologies for the off-topic post.

I'd agree with you:  "are".

Duncan Murdoch