On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > A few comments thrown in, and some general comments at the bottom. > > On 1/1/2007 1:28 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> This is my 2007 New Year wishlist for R features: >> >> 1. [deleted thru 12]
>> 13. Make upper/lower case of simplify/SIMPLIFY consistent on all >> apply commands and add a simplify= arg to by. > > It would have been good not to introduce the inconsistency years ago, > but it's too late to change now. > Really? The consistency issue only concerns mapply, I think. How 'bout changing the formals of mapply to $FUN $... $MoreArgs NULL $SIMPLIFY simplify $USE.NAMES [1] TRUE $simplify [1] TRUE i.e. add simplify = TRUE and change SIMPLIFY's default to 'simplify' Then the default behavior is retained, specifying a value for either SIMPLIFY or simplify gives the desired behavior and SIMPLIFY takes precedence over simplify if both are given values. Not pretty, perhaps, but it does the job. I suppose this could get one into trouble if one of the ... args is named 'simplify', but I do not imagine that is a big deal. >> 14. [rest deleted] Charles C. Berry (858) 534-2098 Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC San Diego http://biostat.ucsd.edu/~cberry/ La Jolla, San Diego 92093-0717 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel