[Rd] Non-documentation of options(<list>) (PR#7079)
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Mon Jul 12 19:04:42 CEST 2004
This is a new bug report on missing documentation only
>>>>> "Deepayan" == Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan at stat.wisc.edu>
>>>>> on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:55:20 -0500 writes:
Deepayan> On Monday 12 July 2004 11:37, Martin Maechler
Deepayan> wrote:
<.......>
>> You weren't making a "feature request" in the other
>> direction where you?
<.......>
Deepayan> Should options( mylist ) work at all? It's not
Deepayan> documented, at least not in ?options. Is that a
Deepayan> documentation oversight?
You are right, it's not properly documentated,
but has been used "forever", typically as in
op <- options(......) # previous option settings
...
...
...
options(op) # reset options
analogously to par().
Patches to <Rsrc>/src/library/base/man/options.Rd are gladly accepted. ;-)
Martin Maechler
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