Re: [Rd] actual argument matching does not conform to the definition (PR#13634)

2009-04-03 Thread maechler
vQ == Wacek Kusnierczyk waclaw.marcin.kusnierc...@idi.ntnu.no on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:25:14 +0200 writes: vQ Thomas Lumley wrote: The explanation is that quote() is a primitive function and that the argument matching rules do not apply to primitives. That section of

[Rd] actual argument matching does not conform to the definition (PR#13634)

2009-04-02 Thread waku
Full_Name: Wacek Kusnierczyk Version: 2.10.0 r48269 OS: Ubuntu 8.04 Linux 32 bit Submission from: (NULL) (129.241.199.164) In the following example (and many other cases): quote(a=1) # 1 the argument matching is apparently incorrect wrt. the documentation (The R Language Definition, v

Re: [Rd] actual argument matching does not conform to the definition (PR#13634)

2009-04-02 Thread Thomas Lumley
The explanation is that quote() is a primitive function and that the argument matching rules do not apply to primitives. That section of the R Language definition should say that primitives are excluded; it is documented in ?.Primitive. -thomas On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 w...@idi.ntnu.no

Re: [Rd] actual argument matching does not conform to the definition (PR#13634)

2009-04-02 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Thomas Lumley wrote: The explanation is that quote() is a primitive function and that the argument matching rules do not apply to primitives. That section of the R Language definition should say that primitives are excluded; it is documented in ?.Primitive. thanks. indeed, the