R devel - Apr 2024 - Petition to set warnPartialMatch* options to TRUE

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?

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"

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