[R] get() versus getAnywhere()

[Rolf Turner]

On 19/04/2009, at 9:45 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 18/04/2009 8:47 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> On 17/04/2009, at 10:21 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>> Benjamin Tyner wrote:
>>>> Many thanks Duncan. Perhaps this merits a more explicit note in the
>>>> documentation?
>>>>
>>> The quote I gave is from the documentation.  How could it be more
>>> explicit?
>>
>> This is unfortunately typical of the attitude of R-core people toward
>> the
>> documentation.  ``It's clear.'' they say.  ``It's explicit.''   
>> Clear and
>> explicit once you *know* what it's saying.  Not before, but.
>
> But I didn't say that.  I asked how to make it more explicit.

	Oh come on Duncan!  You did *not*.  You asked (rhetorical
	question) ``How could it be more explicit?''  (Implied:  How
	could it ***possibly*** be more explicit?)
>
>>
>> In this case the documentation is quite opaque to me, and I would
>> suspect
>> to a good many like me.
>
> What change would make it less opaque?

For one thing, point out ***explicitly***, as you did in your post, that
getAnywhere() doesn't actually get ***anywhere***.  Only some wheres.

(How's that for Canuck English, Berwin?)

	cheers,

		Rolf

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