On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Paul Johnson wrote:

The KEYWORDS file (on R 2.13.1 anyway) , seems to have some extra "&" symbols.
Look below at "&" before "character" "complex" "category" and "NA"

?intentional or mistaken? If not mistaken, what do the & mean?

Both!  The mistake is all yours, however.

Compare with the KEYWORDS.db file or the keyword listing on the HTML search page.


Basics
       sysdata         &       Basic System Variables          [!= S]
       datasets        &       Datasets available by data(.)   [!= S]
       data            &       Environments, Scoping, Packages [~= S]
       manip           &       Data Manipulation
       attribute       &       Data Attributes
       classes         &       Data Types (not OO)
           & character &       Character Data ("String") Operations
           & complex   &       Complex Numbers
           & category  &       Categorical Data
           & NA        &       Missing Values                  [!= S]
       list            &       Lists
       chron           &       Dates and Times
       package         &       Package Summaries


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