[R] Weird behaviour function args in ellipses

[Hadley Wickham]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/12/2015 1:52 PM, Mario José Marques-Azevedo wrote:
>>
>> Hi Duncan and David,
>>
>> Thank you for explanation. I'm really disappointed with this R "resource".
>> I think that partial match, mainly in function args, must be optional and
>> not default. We can have many problems and lost hours find errors (it
>> occur
>> with me). I tried to find a solution to disable partial match, but it
>> seems
>> that is not possible. Program with hacks for this will be sad.
>
>
> Nowadays with smart editors, I agree that partial matching isn't really
> necessary.  However, R has been around for 20 years, and lots of existing
> code depends on it.   Eventually you'll get to know the quirks of the
> design.

And if you really dislike this behavour, you can at least warn on it:

options(
  warnPartialMatchArgs = TRUE,
  warnPartialMatchAttr = TRUE,
  warnPartialMatchDollar = TRUE
)

Hadley

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