[Rd] Wish there were a "strict mode" for R interpreter. What about You?

[Hadley Wickham]

>> Okay, I understand what you are trying to do.  Yes, you have fooled codetools in this instance.
>
> ...but notice that the codetools warning is just that: It _is_ acknowledged that these things occasionally happen by design. There are a couple of cases in base R too:
>
> * checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE
> glm.fit: no visible binding for global variable ‘n’

Are you sure that's not a bug?  There's:

aic.model <- aic(y, n, mu, weights, dev) + 2 * rank

and n.ok is defined, but n isn't defined anywhere.

> quantile.ecdf: no visible binding for global variable ‘y’

I wonder why it warns on y, but not nobs.

Hadley


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