From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Aug 24 20:55:38 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Tue Aug 24 20:57:44 2004
Subject: [Rd] function bug (PR#7199)
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I think you mean

`I apologize for wasting your time by sending the same incorrect idea to
both R-help and R-bugs without doing my homework.'

It is *not* OK for those who have to clear up after you.

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Richard Morey wrote:

> Ok, thanks.
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:
>
> > This is _not_ a bug.  Please read `R Language Manual', section 4.3.2 (as
> > well as the R FAQ on what constitute a bug).
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > > From: morey@banta.psyc.missouri.edu
> > >
> > > The following code prints [1] 2, as it should
> > >
> > > temp<-function(ab,...){
> > > print(ab)
> > > }
> > > temp(2,s=3)
> > >
> > > However, this code prints [1] 3:
> > >
> > > temp<-function(sb,...){
> > > print(sb)
> > > }
> > > temp(2,s=3)
> > >
> > > It should still print [1] 2. It appears
> > > that if a variable in ... begins with the same letter as
> > > another variable,
> > > the value in the variable in ... overwrites the value in the
> > > variable with
> > > the same first letter.
> > >
> > > I didn't see this bug reported elsewhere.
> > >
> > > Richard Morey
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Morey
> > > Graduate Research Assistant, Cognition and Neuroscience
> > > University of Missouri-Columbia
> > >
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[Rd] function bug (PR#7199)
Prof Brian D Ripley