>>>>> Therneau, Terry M , Ph D writes:
> Let me give partial assent to Michael's suggestion:? a) have an easy
way to
> turn this on and b) add a strong suggestion to do so to the WRE manual.???
> Kurt's example in the email shows how to do (a);? but I just looked in
the
> WRE manual and don't see any reference to it, nor any mention from R
CMD
> check --help, so I don't know where I would have found out about it.
> I have gotton warnings about partial matches from CRAN? wrt the survival
> package --- I suspect at the benefit of Kurt? --- and though I muttered
under
> my breath about it at the time there is no doubt that it was a good idea to
> fix all of them, and I'm glad for the nudge.
> Kurt: does that envionment variable contain the options string itself, or
> does it point to a file containing the options?
The latter: one can use _R_CHECK_EXAMPLES_PROFILE_ to point to a profile
containing e.g.
options(warnPartialMatchArgs = TRUE,
warnPartialMatchAttr = TRUE,
warnPartialMatchDollar = TRUE,
showErrorCalls = TRUE,
showWarnCalls = TRUE)
Best
-k
> I appreciate partial matching when typing code at the terminal so want the
> feature to remain in that context.
> Terry T
> --
> Terry M Therneau, PhD
> Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
> Mayo Clinic
> therneau at mayo.edu
> "TERR-ree THUR-noh"