>>>>> "WK" == Wacek Kusnierczyk <waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no>
>>>>> on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:03:12 +0200 writes:
WK> Martin Maechler wrote:
[................]
WK> duplicated.data.frame
WK> # function (x, incomparables = FALSE, fromLast = FALSE, ...)
WK> # {
WK> # if (!is.logical(incomparables) || incomparables)
WK> # .NotYetUsed("incomparables != FALSE")
WK> # duplicated(do.call("paste", c(x, sep = "\r")), fromLast = fromLast)
WK> # }
WK> # <environment: namespace:base>
>>
WK> clearly, the intention here is to raise an error with a (still hardly
WK> clear) message as in:
>>
WK> .NotYetUsed("incomparables != FALSE")
WK> # Error: argument 'incomparables != FALSE' is not used (yet)
>>
WK> but instead, if(NA) is evaluated (because '!is.logical(NA) || NA'
WK> evaluates, *obviously*, to NA) and hence the uninformative error
message.
>>
WK> take home point: rtfm, *but* don't believe it.
>>
>> and then be helpful to the R community and send a bug report
>> *with* a patch if {as in this case} you are able to...
>>
>> Well, that' no longer needed here,
>> I'll fix that easily myself.
>>
WK> but i *have* sent a patch already!
Ok, I believe you. But I think you did not mention that during
this thread, ... and/or I must have overlooked your patch.
In any case the problem is now solved
[well, a better solution of course would add the "not-yet"
functionality..];
thank you for the contribution.
Martin
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