The documentation describes the behavior of the program. The function signature shows how the arguments are declared. Both are correct.
If you read an implementation [1] you will see that the missing() function is used to implement the described behavior, rather than using a default value for the argument. I don't know why this choice was made (changes in language over time?), but setting up argument default values is only one way to accomplish the described behavior. [1] https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/trunk/src/library/utils/R/windows/download.file.R On November 4, 2018 4:56:19 PM PST, "Stéphane Guillou" <stephane.guil...@member.fsf.org> wrote: >Hi there > >I was told by Martin Maechler that I should send this request to R-help > >rather than R-core, so here it is. > >I noticed that the download.file() documentation does not show a >default >value passed on to the `method` argument in the "Usage" section, even >though it is stated underneath that the default method is `"auto"`. > >Does this need fixing? > >Cheers -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
