Dear Brian, Are there many primitives that take more than one argument? I see, for example, that round() is another. Might it not be a good idea to provide a warning in the help file(s) that arguments must be supplied in the correct order?
Regards, John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > project.org] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February-02-08 12:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Rd] argument order for Math2 group functions in R 2.6.x > (PR#10683) > > signif() is primitive in 2.6.x, and so uses positional matching (almost > all primitives do). > > See the NEWS file for the announcement of the change. > > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Full_Name: Ben Hansen > > Version: 2.6.1 > > OS: Windows > > Submission from: (NULL) (66.93.3.101) > > > > > > Hi, > > > > In R 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 on Windows, I get the following upon opening the > GUI (no > > previous commands or special settings): > >> signif(digits=4, x=1/3) > > [1] 4 > > > > It seems to be taking 4 to be the "x" argument, the number to be > rounded. > > However, my understanding (perhaps mistaken) was that it should > respond as > > follows: > >> signif(digits=4, x=1/3) > > [1] 0.3333 > > > > (This last is what I get from R 2.5.0 running on the same machine, > and what I'm > > used to getting using earlier versions.) Similar things happen with > round(). > > > > I haven't yet had the opportunity to investigate whether I'd see the > same > > behavior on other platforms. > > > > Best wishes, > > Ben > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
