[Rd] Undocumented 'use.names' argument to c()

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Sep 21 08:46:48 CEST 2016


> On Sep 20, 2016, at 7:18 PM, Karl Millar via R-devel <r-devel at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> 'c' has an undocumented 'use.names' argument.  I'm not sure if this is
> a documentation or implementation bug.

It came up on stackoverflow a couple of years ago:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24815572/why-does-function-c-accept-an-undocumented-argument/24815653#24815653

At the time it appeared to me to be a documentation lag.


> 
>> c(a = 1)
> a
> 1
>> c(a = 1, use.names = F)
> [1] 1
> 
> Karl
> 
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David Winsemius
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