>>>>> Ralf Goertz
>>>>> on Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:13:08 +0200 writes:
> Am Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:48:14 +0200
> schrieb Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>:
>> TLDR: No, there was no such change in R 4.2.0
> Yeah sorry, now there are three mails and what I really want to know is
> in the third (from 28 Apr 2022 09:53:39 +0200):
> On the other hand why do I get this following error at all?
> Error in binomial(link = identity) :
> link "identity" not available for binomial family; available
links are ?logit?, ?probit?, ?cloglog?, ?cauchit?, ?log?
> This is a bit misleading since identity is a legitimate link function
> and works perfectly *when* *quoted*.
> Short enough? :-)
Well, now you did not read what I wrote, cited here again :
> HOWEVER, this all has been documented for a long time,
> in ?family == ?binomial
> Note:
> The ?link? and ?variance? arguments have rather awkward semantics
> for back-compatibility. The recommended way is to supply them as
> quoted character strings, but they can also be supplied unquoted
> (as names or expressions). Additionally, they can be supplied as
> a length-one character vector giving the name of one of the
> options, or as a list (for ?link?, of class ?"link-glm"?). The
> restrictions apply only to links given as names: when given as a
> character string all the links known to make.link are accepted.