[R] Problem with data.frames

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Mon Aug 4 17:56:52 CEST 2003


On 4 Aug 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
>
> It's rarely advisable to nanny users too much though (as someone said:
> protecting users from doing dumb things may also prevent them from
> doing smart things). In the case of warnings, it is not a good thing
> if they can trigger due to circumstances beyond the user's control.

I would have thought a warning was relatively harmless, especially now
that the package writer can use with(), or something like
   attach(mydata, name="privatedata:mydata")

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle




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