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diff --git a/pkg/R/computeError.R b/pkg/R/computeError.R
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--- a/pkg/R/computeError.R
+++ b/pkg/R/computeError.R
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
 #' Compute error
 #'
-#' Obtain the errors between forecast and data
+#' Compute the errors between forecasted and measured series.
 #'
-#' @param data Dataset, object of class \code{Data} output of \code{getData}
-#' @param pred Forecast object, class \code{Forecast} output of \code{computeForecast}
+#' @param data Object of class \code{Data} output of \code{getData}
+#' @param pred Object of class \code{Forecast} output of \code{computeForecast}
 #' @param horizon Horizon where to compute the error
 #'   (<= horizon used in \code{computeForecast})
 #'
-#' @return A list (abs,MAPE) of lists (day,indices)
+#' @return A list (abs,MAPE) of lists (day,indices). The "indices" slots contain series
+#'   of size L where L is the number of predicted days; i-th value is the averaged error
+#'   (absolute or MAPE) on day i. The "day" slots contain curves of errors, for each time
+#'   step, averaged on the L forecasting days.
 #'
 #' @export
 computeError = function(data, pred, horizon=data$getStdHorizon())