Re: dimnames in Sparc Splus 6.0

[Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Tim Hesterberg x319 wrote:

[...]
> I'll respond to Brian's comment about dup.row.names (not dup.names.ok)
> in data frames.  S was originally developed by researchers at Bell

[...]

From the help page under S-PLUS 6.0 on Solaris:

   dup.names.ok
          a logical flag; if TRUE then duplicate row names are allowed.

so it was not documented correctly by Insightful!

Isn't it about time Insightful had some checking tools for its
documentation (and to help its users to document)?



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