tweaks

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@84753 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41

doc/NEWS.Rd

@@ -17,18 +17,17 @@
  }
  }
 
- \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{ \itemize{
-
+ \subsection{NEW FEATURES}{
+ \itemize{
  \item The \code{confint()} methods for \code{"glm"} and
- \code{"nls"} objects are now in the \pkg{stats}
- package. Previously, they were stubs that called versions in
- \pkg{MASS}. The original versions are still in \pkg{MASS} and can
- be called using an explicit namespace qualifier, but the \pkg{MASS}
- namespace is no longer autoloaded if you invoke (say)
- \code{confint(glmfit)}. Similarly, \code{profile.glm()},
- \code{plot.profile()}, and \code{pairs.profile()} are now in
- \pkg{stats}. (\code{profile.nls()} and \code{plot.profile.nls()}
- were in \code{stats} already.)
+ \code{"nls"} objects have been copied to the \pkg{stats}
+ package. Previously, they were stubs which called versions in
+ package \pkg{MASS}. The \pkg{MASS} namespace is no longer loaded
+ if you invoke (say) \code{confint(glmfit)}. Further, the
+ \code{"glm"} method for \code{profile()} and the \code{plot()}
+ and \code{pairs()} mesthods for class \code{"profile"} have been
+ copied from \pkg{MASS} to \pkg{stats}. (\code{profile.nls()} and
+ \code{plot.profile.nls()} were already in \code{stats}.)
 
  \item The \code{confint()} and \code{profile} methods for
  \code{"glm"} objects have gained a possibility to do profiling
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@
  restrict to smaller values).
 
  \item \R on Windows (since Windows 10 2004) now uses the new Segment
- Heap allocator. This may improve performance of some memory intensive
+ Heap allocator. This may improve performance of some memory-intensive
  applications.
 
  \item When \R packages are built, typically by \command{R CMD build <pkg>},
@@ -93,7 +92,7 @@
 
  \item There is some support for building with Intel's LLVM-based
  compilers on \samp{x86_64} Linux, such as (C) \command{icx}, (C++)
- \command{ipcx} and (Fortran) \command{ifx} from oneAPI 2023.1.0.
+ \command{ipcx} and (Fortran) \command{ifx} from oneAPI 2023.x.0.
  }
  }
 
@@ -163,7 +162,7 @@
  GraphApp has been fixed (\PR{13870}).
 
  \item \code{density()} more consistently computes grid values for the
- FFT based convolution, following Robert Schlicht's analysis and
+ FFT-based convolution, following Robert Schlicht's analysis and
  proposal in \PR{18337}, correcting density values typically by a
  factor of about 0.999. Optional \code{old.coords=TRUE} provides
  back compatibility.

doc/manual/R-exts.texi

@@ -5348,9 +5348,9 @@ does not mention any options, and what calling it without options does
 is platform-dependent. Stripping a @file{.so} file could even prevent
 it being dynamically loaded into @R{} on an untested platform.
 
-@command{ld -S} invokes @command{strip --strip-debug} on GNU
-@command{ld} but is not portable: in particular on Solaris it did
-something completely different and took an argument.
+@command{ld -S} invokes @command{strip --strip-debug} for GNU
+@command{ld} (and similarly on macOS) but is not portable: in particular
+on Solaris it did something completely different and took an argument.
 
 @item
 Some people have a need to set a locale. Locale names are not portable,