Kenn Konstabel wrote: > > On the other hand, while there may be ground to complain, it may be easier > to make your own version of subset.data.frame and advertise it to everyone: > >
sure, but: a) it may actually increase the mess, and reduce portability b) is still vulnerable to the idiosyncrasies of the functions you use to develop your own function. to b), that was the original case; the user wanted to implement a function that did print-names-subset, and he got caught by subset. it should be preferred to have a clean and consistent protocol for how functions treat their arguments, rather than to multiply implementations of the same operation to provide versions that differ in nitty-gritty details just because the original does something odd. vQ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.
