updates after comments from Kurt

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk@1257 c52295ea-58df-0310-926a-d16021944841

Author: ripley

170update.txt

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ print.matrix() only exists for backwards compatibility: it is the same
 as print.default().  Very likely print.matrix was used for the
 right=TRUE argument that S's print.default does not have, but this is
 unnecessary.  If you want the call sequence of print.matrix, use prmatrix
-instead.  Also, note that print(.default) prints the attributes of the matrix 
+instead.  Also, note that print prints the attributes of the matrix 
 whereas prmatrix does not.
 
 
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ data.class() reports "numeric" for integer vectors.)
 ]
 
 Unless the package makes use of setMethod (methods), loading can be
-speeded up by having an object called .noGenerics (with any value) in
-the package.
+speeded up (unless `methods' is not loaded) by having an object called
+.noGenerics (with any value) in the package.
 
 
 Namespaces
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ documentation is in `Writing R Extensions'.
 Other changes
 -------------
 
-The default random number generators have been changed.
+The default random number generators have been changed: see the NEWS
+file and ?RNGversion.
 
 
 solve.default() now uses LAPACK by default, and works as documented,
@@ -95,19 +96,16 @@ qr() and qr.solve() for those.
 
 Packages should not execute code with side effects in their .R files.
 If you have require() or options() statements at the top level in such
-files, please move them to .First.lib.  This is necessary for the
-experiments with saving objects in databases, a feature planned for
-1.8.x.
+files, please move them to .First.lib (or .onLoad if a namespace is in
+use for the package).  This is necessary for the experiments with
+saving objects in databases, a feature planned for 1.8.x.
 
 
-A full double-precision LAPACK library Rlapack.{so,sl,dll,dynlib} is
+A full double-precision LAPACK library Rlapack.{so,sl,dll,dylib} is
 installed with R, unless a high-performance LAPACK library was found
 at configure time.  If your package makes use of LAPACK, please
 convert it to use this via
 
       $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS)
 
 in PKG_LIBS in Makevars.
-
-
-