[R] Dead link in the help page of as.Date()

[Ista Zahn]

Fortunately we have the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120425004417/http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/matlab_prog/bspgcx2-1.html

Best,
Ista

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 23/06/2014 20:41, Christofer Bogaso wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was reading the help page for as.Date() function for some reason,
>> and noticed a Matlab link:
>>
>> http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/matlab_prog/bspgcx2-1.html
>>
>> It looks like this link is dead. So may be it would be better to put a
>> correct link or remove this altogether.
>
>
> It is not a link ... it is the reference for the value quoted.  Even if URLs
> are removed, the convention is to credit the actual source.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
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