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I would vote for allowing a URL or external file name in in DESCRIPTION, whose contents could be automatically displayed for the user when needed. Our changelogs are automatically generated by CVS and are on the web. -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University

Sometimes I get confused with R's documentation. It seems the documents is not maintained and updated well. Anyone has similar feeling? I don't mean to offend anyone. I hope R would get better and better. But documentation is really one very important factor which could attract people coming or drive people away. Xin Zheng [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, If needed, lapply() tries to convert its first argument into a list before it starts doing something with it: > lapply function (X, FUN, ...) { FUN <- match.fun(FUN) if (!is.vector(X) || is.object(X)) X <- as.list(X) .Internal(lapply(X, FUN)) } But in practice, things don't always seem to "work" as suggested by this code (at least to the