[Rd] match.call problem (PR#813)

[p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk]

Previously reported by Martin as a plot.formula issue, but I believe
it boils down to this:

> f <- function(x,...)match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)
> g <- function(x,y=2,...)f(x,y=y,...)
> g(1)
f(x = x, ... = list(y = y, ...))
> g(1,b=2) 
f(x = x, ... = list(y = y, b = 2))
> g(1,y=2)
f(x = x, ... = list(y = y, ...))

Notice that ... appears if all actual arguments to g are matched in
the call to f. This is the *name* "..." as in as.name("..."). I would
have expected just ... = list(y = y) in those cases.

Simpler

> f <- function(x,...)match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)
> g <- function(x,...)f(x,...)
> g(1)
f(x = x, ... = list(...))
> g(1,2)
f(x = x, ... = list(..1 = 2))
> g(1,a=2)
f(x = x, ... = list(a = 2))

or yet again simpler

> f <- function(...)match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)
> g <- function(...)f(...)
> g(1)
f(... = list(..1 = 1))
> g()
f(... = list(...))
> f()
f()


For comparison, Splus 3.4 has this kind of stuff:

> f <- function(...)match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)
> g <- function(...)f(...)
> g()
f(... = list())
> f()
f(... = list())
> g(1)
f(... = list(1))
> g(a=1)  
f(... = list(a = 1))

I don't see why we don't do the same (although given differences in
lazy evaluation, there might be a point to it), but just getting rid
of the ... in the lists would help quite a bit.

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