Fix typos

NEWS.md

@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ Internal changes only.
 
 # RPostgres 1.0-4 (2017-12-20)
 
-- Only call `PQcancel()` if the query hasn't completed, fixes transactions on Amazon RedShift (#159, @mmuurr).
-- Fix installation on MacOS.
+- Only call `PQcancel()` if the query hasn't completed, fixes transactions on Amazon Redshift (#159, @mmuurr).
+- Fix installation on macOS.
 - Check libpq version in configure script (need at least 9.0).
 - Fix UBSAN warning: reference binding to null pointer (#156).
 - Fix rchk warning: PROTECT internal temporary SEXP objects (#157).

R/PqResult.R

@@ -57,13 +57,13 @@ setMethod("dbColumnInfo", "PqResult", function(res, ...) {
 #' fetches and clears for you.
 #'
 #' @param conn A [PqConnection-class] created by [dbConnect()].
-#' @param statement An SQL string to execute
+#' @param statement An SQL string to execute.
 #' @param params A list of query parameters to be substituted into
 #'   a parameterised query. Query parameters are sent as strings, and the
 #'   correct type is imputed by PostgreSQL. If this fails, you can manually
 #'   cast the parameter with e.g. `"$1::bigint"`.
-#' @param ... Another arguments needed for compatibility with generic (
-#'   currently ignored).
+#' @param ... Other arguments needed for compatibility with generic (currently
+#'   ignored).
 #' @examples
 #' # For running the examples on systems without PostgreSQL connection:
 #' run <- postgresHasDefault()

R/quote.R

@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ NULL
 #' at most one `table` component and at most one `schema` component.
 #'
 #' @param conn A [PqConnection-class] created by `dbConnect()`
-#' @param x A character to escaped
-#' @param ... Other arguments needed for compatibility with generic
+#' @param x A character vector to be quoted.
+#' @param ... Other arguments needed for compatibility with generic (currently
+#'   ignored).
 #' @examples
 #' # For running the examples on systems without PostgreSQL connection:
 #' run <- postgresHasDefault()

R/tables.R

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #'   with [DBI::dbDataType()]).
 #' @param copy If `TRUE`, serializes the data frame to a single string
 #'   and uses `COPY name FROM stdin`. This is fast, but not supported by
-#'   all postgres servers (e.g. Amazon's redshift). If `FALSE`, generates
+#'   all postgres servers (e.g. Amazon's Redshift). If `FALSE`, generates
 #'   a single SQL string. This is slower, but always supported.
 #'
 #' @examples

README.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ RPostgres is an DBI-compliant interface to the postgres database. It's a ground-
   don't need to worry about leaking connections or memory.
 
 * Is a little faster, saving ~5 ms per query. (For reference, it takes around 5ms
-  to retrive a 1000 x 25 result set from a local database, so this is 
+  to retrieve a 1000 x 25 result set from a local database, so this is 
   decent speed up for smaller queries.)
 
 * A simplified build process that relies on system libpq.

vignettes/work-queue.Rmd

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ con <- dbConnect(RPostgres::Postgres())
 dbExecute(con, "LISTEN grapevine")
 ```
 
-...in this case, "grapevine" is arbitary, we don't need to create channels ahead of time.
+...in this case, "grapevine" is arbitrary, we don't need to create channels ahead of time.
 To make sure we have something to receive, we can start a separate R process using [callr](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=callr).
 Ordinarily this would be part of another R script, maybe on another computer.
 This will wait a bit, and use ``NOTIFY`` to send a message, then finish: