[Rd] transform.data.frame() ignores unnamed arguments when no named argument is provided

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Gabriel Becker 
>>>>>     on Thu, 2 Mar 2023 14:37:18 -0800 writes:

    > On Thu, Mar 2, 2023 at 2:02 PM Antoine Fabri
    > <antoine.fabri using gmail.com> wrote:

    >> Thanks and good point about unspecified behavior. The way
    >> it behaves now (when it doesn't ignore) is more
    >> consistent with data.frame() though so I prefer that to a
    >> "warn and ignore" behaviour:
    >> 
    >> data.frame(a = 1, b = 2, 3)
    >> 
    >> #> a b X3
    >> 
    >> #> 1 1 2 3
    >> 
    >> 
    >> data.frame(a = 1, 2, 3)
    >> 
    >> #> a X2 X3
    >> 
    >> #> 1 1 2 3
    >> 
    >> 
    >> (and in general warnings make for unpleasant debugging so
    >> I prefer when we don't add new ones if avoidable)
    >> 

    > I find silence to be much more unpleasant in practice when
    > debugging, myself, but that may be a personal preference.

+1

I also *strongly* disagree with the claim

   " in general warnings make for unpleasant debugging "

That may be true for beginners (for whom debugging is often not really
feasible anyway ..), but somewhat experienced useRs should know

about
    options(warn = 1) # or
    options(warn = 2) # plus  options(error = recover) #
or
    tryCatch( ...,  warning = ..)

or  {even more}

Martin

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Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich  and  R Core team