[Rd] function bug (PR#7199)
Liaw, Andy
andy_liaw at merck.com
Tue Aug 24 20:44:24 CEST 2004
This is _not_ a bug. Please read `R Language Manual', section 4.3.2 (as
well as the R FAQ on what constitute a bug).
Andy
> From: morey at banta.psyc.missouri.edu
>
> The following code prints [1] 2, as it should
>
> temp<-function(ab,...){
> print(ab)
> }
> temp(2,s=3)
>
> However, this code prints [1] 3:
>
> temp<-function(sb,...){
> print(sb)
> }
> temp(2,s=3)
>
> It should still print [1] 2. It appears
> that if a variable in ... begins with the same letter as
> another variable,
> the value in the variable in ... overwrites the value in the
> variable with
> the same first letter.
>
> I didn't see this bug reported elsewhere.
>
> Richard Morey
>
> --
> Richard Morey
> Graduate Research Assistant, Cognition and Neuroscience
> University of Missouri-Columbia
>
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