>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:
>>>>> "DeepS" == Deepayan Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:07:27 -0800 writes:
DeepS> The old apropos started with: if
DeepS> (!is.character(what)) what <-
DeepS> as.character(substitute(what))
DeepS> The new one has:
DeepS> if (character.only) stopifnot(is.character(what))
DeepS> else what <- as.character(substitute(what))
DeepS> i.e., the check for is.character(what) is
DeepS> missing. This has the effect that 'what' can no
DeepS> longer be a character string generated by a function
DeepS> call unless 'character.only = TRUE'. I don't think
DeepS> this was intended; the change makes previously valid
DeepS> use invalid and I can't think of a situation where it
DeepS> is useful.
> [ Did you read the corresponding NEWS entry? ]
> It now parallelizes the use in library() , require() etc,
> and in particular does what the documentation says it does!
> The old behavior was much less consistent and not according to
> documentation:
> apropos(lm) was equivalent to apropos("lm")
> but apropos(fit) gave an error.
I would actually prefer if we only had standard evaluation for apropos()
and find().
(I understand we cannot do this for library() and help().)
-k
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