On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Peter Meilstrup
>> explain some things, such as under what circumstances one would get a >> "`...` used in incorrect context" error. > > How could it possibly know that? > > -- Bert By looking at the code that throws the error. The code is in src/main/eval.c, and the error is thrown in several places when the symbol ... appears in a call being evaluated, and the value of the symbol is neither the special DOTSXP type nor NULL. That is, if you use ... in code and there isn't a ... formal argument in scope. -thomas -- Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics University of Auckland ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
