Thank you, Suharto,
you are right, there (on ?Extract ) has been a typo.
I've fixed it and also added an example at the very end of that
help page.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>>>>> Suharto Anggono <suharto_angg...@yahoo.com>
>>>>> on Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:48:12 -0800 writes:
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6065724/assigning-value-to-a-variable-that-has-a-dot-in-the-name
> made me realize this. The context is 'a' is assigned to
> ret$log.id, but then ret$log returns "a" and ret$l also
> returns "a". There is a comment from Charles on the
> question: "Also see options(warnPartialMatchDollar=T) if
> you want to track these."
> But, in bottom part, there is Chase's answer, quoting help
> page for $.
> ... under Character indices: Thus the default behaviour is
> to use partial matching only when extracting from
> recursive objects (except environments) by $. Even in that
> case, warnings can be switched on by
> options(warnPartialMatchAttr = TRUE).
> This is what I get from R documentation of 'options'.
> ‘warnPartialMatchAttr’: logical. If true, warns if
> partial matching is used in extracting attributes via
> ‘attr’.
> ‘warnPartialMatchDollar’: logical. If true, warns if
> partial matching is used for extraction by ‘$’.
> So, in the part of help page on '$' quoted in part of
> Chase's answer above, options(warnPartialMatchAttr = TRUE)
> should be options(warnPartialMatchDollar = TRUE)
> This is in R 2.15.2.
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