From pinard at iro.umontreal.ca  Sat May 27 14:29:21 2006
From: pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (pinard at iro.umontreal.ca)
Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 14:29:21 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] Correction to ?alist (PR#8904)
Message-ID: <20060527122921.27EACCCD6@slim.kubism.ku.dk>

Hi, people.  ?alist says:

     'alist' is like 'list', except in the handling of tagged arguments
     with no value.

As written, this description is misleading.  For example:

    > list(e=3+5)
    $e
    [1] 8

    > alist(e=3+5)
    $e
    3 + 5

We are not in the situation of tagged arguments with no value, and then,
clearly, 'list' and 'alist' behave differently.  The 'alist' documentation
probably needs to be amended, or clarified.

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Version:
 platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 arch = i686
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i686, linux-gnu
 status = Under development (unstable)
 major = 2
 minor = 4.0
 year = 2006
 month = 05
 day = 13
 svn rev = 38058
 language = R
 version.string = R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-05-13 r38058)

Locale:
LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_CA.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:stats, package:utils, package:datasets, fp.etc, package:graphics, package:grDevices, Autoloads, package:base

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Fran??ois Pinard   http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca



[Rd] Correction to ?alist (PR#8904)
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca