[R] Weird behaviour function args in ellipses

[Mario José Marques-Azevedo]

Hi all,

Bert it's all ok! My disappointments are blame of my expectations and not
of R. I started with C and Php and learned to be explicit, 'computer do not
to guess what you want', but R do this 'favour' for us. I love work on R
and for my previous experiences I not expected this behaviour (again my
fault). I read others aspects of manual, but this that I supposed to know
(my fault).
But ok, we learn with our faults. And this is good!
Hadley, thank you for options!
Best regards,
Mario
On 11 Dec 2015 18:30, "Hadley Wickham" <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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