On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@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 -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
