Hervé Pagès
2017-May-03 19:04 UTC
[Rd] stopifnot() does not stop at first non-TRUE argument
Not sure why the performance penalty of nonstandard evaluation would be more of a concern here than for something like switch(). If that can't/won't be fixed, what about fixing the man page so it's in sync with the current behavior? Thanks, H. On 05/03/2017 02:26 AM, peter dalgaard wrote:> The first line of stopifnot is > > n <- length(ll <- list(...)) > > which takes ALL arguments and forms a list of them. This implies evaluation, so explains the effect that you see. > > To do it differently, you would have to do something like > > dots <- match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)$... > > and then explicitly evaluate each argument in turn in the caller frame. This amount of nonstandard evaluation sounds like it would incur a performance penalty, which could be undesirable. > > If you want to enforce the order of evaluation, there is always > > stopifnot(A) > stopifnot(B) > > -pd > >> On 3 May 2017, at 02:50 , Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fredhutch.org> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> It's surprising that stopifnot() keeps evaluating its arguments after >> it reaches the first one that is not TRUE: >> >> > stopifnot(3 == 5, as.integer(2^32), a <- 12) >> Error: 3 == 5 is not TRUE >> In addition: Warning message: >> In stopifnot(3 == 5, as.integer(2^32), a <- 12) : >> NAs introduced by coercion to integer range >> > a >> [1] 12 >> >> The details section in its man page actually suggests that it should >> stop at the first non-TRUE argument: >> >> ?stopifnot(A, B)? is conceptually equivalent to >> >> { if(any(is.na(A)) || !all(A)) stop(...); >> if(any(is.na(B)) || !all(B)) stop(...) } >> >> Best, >> H. >> >> -- >> Herv? Pag?s >> >> Program in Computational Biology >> Division of Public Health Sciences >> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center >> 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 >> P.O. Box 19024 >> Seattle, WA 98109-1024 >> >> E-mail: hpages at fredhutch.org >> Phone: (206) 667-5791 >> Fax: (206) 667-1319 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_r-2Ddevel&d=DwIFaQ&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=JwgKhKD2k-9Kedeh6pqu-A8x6UEV0INrcxcSGVGo3Tg&s=f7IKJIhpRNJMC3rZAkuI6-MTdL3GAKSV2wK0boFN5HY&e>-- Herv? Pag?s Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 E-mail: hpages at fredhutch.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319
Hervé Pagès
2017-May-03 19:08 UTC
[Rd] stopifnot() does not stop at first non-TRUE argument
On 05/03/2017 12:04 PM, Herv? Pag?s wrote:> Not sure why the performance penalty of nonstandard evaluation would > be more of a concern here than for something like switch().which is actually a primitive. So it seems that there is at least another way to go than 'dots <- match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)$...' Thanks, H.> > If that can't/won't be fixed, what about fixing the man page so it's > in sync with the current behavior? > > Thanks, > H. > > On 05/03/2017 02:26 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: >> The first line of stopifnot is >> >> n <- length(ll <- list(...)) >> >> which takes ALL arguments and forms a list of them. This implies >> evaluation, so explains the effect that you see. >> >> To do it differently, you would have to do something like >> >> dots <- match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)$... >> >> and then explicitly evaluate each argument in turn in the caller >> frame. This amount of nonstandard evaluation sounds like it would >> incur a performance penalty, which could be undesirable. >> >> If you want to enforce the order of evaluation, there is always >> >> stopifnot(A) >> stopifnot(B) >> >> -pd >> >>> On 3 May 2017, at 02:50 , Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fredhutch.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It's surprising that stopifnot() keeps evaluating its arguments after >>> it reaches the first one that is not TRUE: >>> >>> > stopifnot(3 == 5, as.integer(2^32), a <- 12) >>> Error: 3 == 5 is not TRUE >>> In addition: Warning message: >>> In stopifnot(3 == 5, as.integer(2^32), a <- 12) : >>> NAs introduced by coercion to integer range >>> > a >>> [1] 12 >>> >>> The details section in its man page actually suggests that it should >>> stop at the first non-TRUE argument: >>> >>> ?stopifnot(A, B)? is conceptually equivalent to >>> >>> { if(any(is.na(A)) || !all(A)) stop(...); >>> if(any(is.na(B)) || !all(B)) stop(...) } >>> >>> Best, >>> H. >>> >>> -- >>> Herv? Pag?s >>> >>> Program in Computational Biology >>> Division of Public Health Sciences >>> Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center >>> 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 >>> P.O. Box 19024 >>> Seattle, WA 98109-1024 >>> >>> E-mail: hpages at fredhutch.org >>> Phone: (206) 667-5791 >>> Fax: (206) 667-1319 >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_r-2Ddevel&d=DwIFaQ&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=JwgKhKD2k-9Kedeh6pqu-A8x6UEV0INrcxcSGVGo3Tg&s=f7IKJIhpRNJMC3rZAkuI6-MTdL3GAKSV2wK0boFN5HY&e>>> >> >-- Herv? Pag?s Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 E-mail: hpages at fredhutch.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319
Martin Maechler
2017-May-15 08:39 UTC
[Rd] stopifnot() does not stop at first non-TRUE argument
>>>>> Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fredhutch.org> >>>>> on Wed, 3 May 2017 12:08:26 -0700 writes:> On 05/03/2017 12:04 PM, Herv? Pag?s wrote: >> Not sure why the performance penalty of nonstandard evaluation would >> be more of a concern here than for something like switch(). > which is actually a primitive. So it seems that there is at least > another way to go than 'dots <- match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)$...' > Thanks, H. >> >> If that can't/won't be fixed, what about fixing the man page so it's >> in sync with the current behavior? >> >> Thanks, H. Being back from vacations,... I agree that something should be done here, if not to the code than at least to the man page. For now, I'd like to look a bit longer into a possible change to the function. Peter mentioned a NSE way to fix the problem and you mentioned switch(). Originally, stopifnot() was only a few lines of code and meant to be "self-explaining" by just reading its definition, and I really would like to not walk too much away from that original idea. How did you (Herve) think to use switch() here? >> On 05/03/2017 02:26 AM, peter dalgaard wrote: >>> The first line of stopifnot is >>> >>> n <- length(ll <- list(...)) >>> >>> which takes ALL arguments and forms a list of them. This implies >>> evaluation, so explains the effect that you see. >>> >>> To do it differently, you would have to do something like >>> >>> dots <- match.call(expand.dots=FALSE)$... >>> >>> and then explicitly evaluate each argument in turn in the caller >>> frame. This amount of nonstandard evaluation sounds like it would >>> incur a performance penalty, which could be undesirable. >>> >>> If you want to enforce the order of evaluation, there is always >>> >>> stopifnot(A) stopifnot(B) >>> >>> -pd >>> >>>> On 3 May 2017, at 02:50 , Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fredhutch.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> It's surprising that stopifnot() keeps evaluating its arguments >>>> after it reaches the first one that is not TRUE: >>>> >>>> > stopifnot(3 == 5, as.integer(2^32), a <- 12) Error: 3 == 5 is >>>> not TRUE In addition: Warning message: In stopifnot(3 == 5, >>>> as.integer(2^32), a <- 12) : NAs introduced by coercion to integer >>>> range > a [1] 12 >>>> >>>> The details section in its man page actually suggests that it >>>> should stop at the first non-TRUE argument: >>>> >>>> ?stopifnot(A, B)? is conceptually equivalent to >>>> >>>> { if(any(is.na(A)) || !all(A)) stop(...); if(any(is.na(B)) || >>>> !all(B)) stop(...) } >>>> >>>> Best, H. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Herv? Pag?s >>>> >>>> Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health >>>> Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview >>>> Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 >>>> >>>> E-mail: hpages at fredhutch.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) >>>> 667-1319 >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__stat.ethz.ch_mailman_listinfo_r-2Ddevel&d=DwIFaQ&c=eRAMFD45gAfqt84VtBcfhQ&r=BK7q3XeAvimeWdGbWY_wJYbW0WYiZvSXAJJKaaPhzWA&m=JwgKhKD2k-9Kedeh6pqu-A8x6UEV0INrcxcSGVGo3Tg&s=f7IKJIhpRNJMC3rZAkuI6-MTdL3GAKSV2wK0boFN5HY&e >>>> >>> >> > -- Herv? Pag?s > Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences > Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, > M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 > E-mail: hpages at fredhutch.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) > 667-1319 > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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