On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On 4 Aug 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > > > > It's rarely advisable to nanny users too much though (as someone said: > > protecting users from doing dumb things may also prevent them from > > doing smart things). In the case of warnings, it is not a good thing > > if they can trigger due to circumstances beyond the user's control. > > I would have thought a warning was relatively harmless, especially now > that the package writer can use with(), or something like > attach(mydata, name="privatedata:mydata")
Often you cannot use with(), as that does assignments in the wrong environment (something which is always catching me). I don't think we can reasonably expect package writers to work around an unnecessary restriction. As John Fox has pointed out, anyone who wants to can write a new function to do the warning, or disallow duplicate names or ... -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
