Peter Kleiweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > > > This is a misunderstanding, I think, not a bug. R is using partial > > matching and the `2', since it is not named, is being sent through the > > `...'. > > That is not very sensible behaviour, and it certainly doesn't > explain why 2 is set equal to 3.
It isn't. The arguments are switched around. Like plot(1,x=0) plots a point at (0,1), a fact that is sometimes used in connection with the apply()-family of functions. Given that we allow partial matching, this effect is pretty much unavoidable. However, the partial matching is probably a feature regretted by its designer for reasons of examples like this. Trying to remove the feature from the language at this stage is going to be pretty painful! -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
