glm code bug (PR#224)
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:37:46 +0200 (MET DST)
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 Bill.Venables@cmis.csiro.au wrote:
> Peter,
[Peter only fixes most of the bugs....]
> There is a clear and simple bug in glm() that I have noticed in
> 0.64.2 (Windows and Unix) but may have been present in earlier
> versions.
It has a long history: the expand.dots = FALSE was introduced in 0.63,
but the second call has been wrong for longer.
> The two marked lines should clearly be
>
> call <- match.call()
>
> and
>
> mf <- match.call(expand.dots = FALSE)
as in S.
I've committed this for 0.65.0.
We have had various discussions about glm: it is proving very hard to
maintain (that is, find the bugs) and is irritatingly different from S.
One option is to reimplement it.
Brian
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