Thanks Emil for your thorough answer. It really clarified a lot to me. And
revealed (even more of) my ignorance.
>-Original Message-
>From: Emil Bode
>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 10:48 AM
>To: Henrik Pärn ; r-devel@r-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Rd] named arguments
atching is done
there as well. Sometimes. At least when 'x' argument is not first, as shown in
Bill's examples. Obviously my "test" was insufficient...
Cheers,
Henrik
From: William Dunlap
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 9:10 PM
To: Henrik Pärn
Cc: r-devel@r-proje
tl;dr:
Why are named arguments discouraged in `[.data.frame`, `[<-.data.frame` and
`[[.data.frame`?
(because this question is of the kind 'why is R designed like this?', I though
R-devel would be more appropriate than R-help)
#
Background:
Now and then students pr
8.10.2011 14:54, Henrik Pärn wrote:
> Dear R developers,
>
> I find the which.min function very handy. However, maybe you could
> consider a tiny addition to the example data in the the help text.
>
> By adding another zero to the vector x...
>
> x <- c(1:4, 0, 0:5,11)
>
>
Value section, while it is
parenthesized in Description. I believe that the parenthesis could be
removed, and 'first' possibly could be emphasized here as well.
Well, well, just a small suggestion. Thank you all for your great work.
Best regards,
Henrik
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Henrik Pärn
Centre for Conser
