From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Fri Oct 17 09:54:41 2003
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Fri Oct 17 09:51:26 2003
Subject: [Rd] data() misbehaving inside a function
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Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> writes:

> KH> Or get rid of non-standard evaluation and educate users to use quoted
> KH> strings where strings should be used.
> 
> > and infuriate those who know and used the S language for more than 15
> > years, where help(help) has always worked?
> 
> I would think that these users either click themselves to happiness, or
> use ? because it is shorter.

Ummm, ?help is another non-standard eval. "?" is an operator,
operators work on objects not (normally) their names....

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[Rd] data() misbehaving inside a function
Peter Dalgaard