I mean if the person filing the bug regards style as more important than the truth of how R treats formulas then they’re literally talking in another language.
I strongly recommend you do nothing or at most make a note in the documentation addressing this. Your time is too valuable. On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 12:56 am, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. via R-devel < r-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > I recently had a long argument wrt the survival package, namely that the > following code > didn't do what they expected, and so they reported it as a bug > > survival::coxph( survival::Surv(time, status) ~ age + sex + > survival::strata(inst), > data=lung) > > a. The Google R style guide recommends that one put :: everywhere > b. This breaks the recognition of cluster as a "special" in the terms > function. > > I've been stubborn and said that their misunderstanding of how formulas > work is not my > problem. But I'm sure that the issue will come up again, and multiple > other packages > will break. > > A big problem is that the code runs, it just gives the wrong answer. > > Suggestions? > > Terry T. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel