G'day John, >>>>> "JT" == Thaden, John J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JT> Isn't is standard practice to have R base functions accept JT> truncated argument names as long as they are unambiguous? No. :) The help page of order states: Usage: order(..., na.last = TRUE, decreasing = FALSE) Standard practice in R is that arguments behind ... are only matched by "exact matching", i.e., you have to specify the tag of that argument in full. Details on how arguments are matched are in the section "Argument matching" of "The R Language Definition" (and all though this is a draft, that part seems to be authoritative :) ). Cheers, Berwin ========================== Full address ============================ Berwin A Turlach Tel.: +61 (8) 6488 3338 (secr) School of Mathematics and Statistics +61 (8) 6488 3383 (self) The University of Western Australia FAX : +61 (8) 6488 1028 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~berwin ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.