[Rd] data() misbehaving inside a function

[Peter Dalgaard]

Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu-wien.ac.at> writes:

> KH> Or get rid of non-standard evaluation and educate users to use quoted
> KH> strings where strings should be used.
> 
> > and infuriate those who know and used the S language for more than 15
> > years, where help(help) has always worked?
> 
> I would think that these users either click themselves to happiness, or
> use ? because it is shorter.

Ummm, ?help is another non-standard eval. "?" is an operator,
operators work on objects not (normally) their names....

-- 
   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
  c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics     2200 Cph. N   
 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907