I don't remember what rpartpl once did myself; as you point out it is a routine that is no
longer used and should be removed. I've cc'd Brian since he maintains the rpart code.
Long ago return() with multiple arguments was a legal shorthand for returning a list.
This feature was depricated in Splus, I think even before R rose to prominence. I vaguely
remember a time when it's usage generated a warning.
The fact that I've never noticed this unused routine is somewhat embarrassing. Perhaps I
need a "not documented, never called" addition to R CMD check to help me along.
Terry Therneau
In the recommended package rpart (version 4.1-1), the file rpartpl.R
contains the following line:
return(x = x[!erase], y = y[!erase])
AFAIK, returning multiple values like this is not valid R. Is that
correct? I can't seem to make it work in my own code.
It doesn't appear that rpartpl.R is used anywhere, so this may have
never caused an issue. But it's tripping up my R compiler.
Thanks,
Justin Talbot
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