From andy_liaw at merck.com  Tue Aug 24 20:44:24 2004
From: andy_liaw at merck.com (Liaw, Andy)
Date: Tue Aug 24 20:44:56 2004
Subject: [Rd] function bug (PR#7199)
Message-ID: <3A822319EB35174CA3714066D590DCD504AF8294@usrymx25.merck.com>

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)
Liaw, Andy