Ummm... as today is still Armistice day (in my time zone, anyway), maybe we should call a truce and end this flame war...
Cheers, Bert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Berwin A Turlach Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:31 AM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: R help Subject: Re: [R] Variable passed to function not used in function in select=... in subset G'day Duncan, On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:37:57 -0500 Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this tension is a fundamental part of the character of S and > R. But it is also fundamental to R that there are QC tests that apply > to code in packages: so writing new tests that detect dangerous > usage (e.g. to disallow partial name matching) would be another way > to improve reliability. [...] Please not. :) After years of using of R, it is now second nature to me to type (yes, I always spell out "from" and "to") seq(from=xx, to=yy, length=zz) and I never understood why the full name of that argument had to be length.out. I would hate to see lots of warning messages because I am using partial matching. Cheers, Berwin ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
