I think you mean `I apologize for wasting your time by sending the same incorrect idea to both R-help and R-bugs without doing my homework.'
It is *not* OK for those who have to clear up after you. On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Richard Morey wrote: > Ok, thanks. > > On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote: > > > This is _not_ a bug. Please read `R Language Manual', section 4.3.2 (as > > well as the R FAQ on what constitute a bug). > > > > Andy > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > The following code prints [1] 2, as it should > > > > > > temp<-function(ab,...){ > > > print(ab) > > > } > > > temp(2,s=3) > > > > > > However, this code prints [1] 3: > > > > > > temp<-function(sb,...){ > > > print(sb) > > > } > > > temp(2,s=3) > > > > > > It should still print [1] 2. It appears > > > that if a variable in ... begins with the same letter as > > > another variable, > > > the value in the variable in ... overwrites the value in the > > > variable with > > > the same first letter. > > > > > > I didn't see this bug reported elsewhere. > > > > > > Richard Morey > > > > > > -- > > > Richard Morey > > > Graduate Research Assistant, Cognition and Neuroscience > > > University of Missouri-Columbia > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains information > > of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA 08889), > > and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the United States as Merck > > Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu) that may be > > confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is intended > > solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this message. If you are > > not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please notify > > us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your system. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > -- > Richard Morey > Graduate Research Assistant, Cognition and Neuroscience > University of Missouri-Columbia > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel