Re: [R-pkg-devel] [EXTERNAL] Re: slightly polemic question re R CMD check

2020-03-09 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Re backwards specialization... you could also say that a vector is a special kind of matrix... but it most definitely is not that way in R. On March 9, 2020 9:51:47 AM PDT, Hong Ooi wrote: >I tend to agree. Having ... as an argument for a specific method is >often unnecessary, and furthermore,

Re: [R-pkg-devel] [EXTERNAL] Re: slightly polemic question re R CMD check

2020-03-09 Thread Hong Ooi via R-package-devel
I tend to agree. Having ... as an argument for a specific method is often unnecessary, and furthermore, can result in errors being hidden. Eg you think you're calling methodname(arg1, arg2="whatever") but you're really calling methodname(arg1, ar2="whatever") and the misspelling isn't picked