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2004 Jun 03
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Sloppy argument checking for named arguments
Christian --
This is not a bug, but a feature, and the dot is not the issue here. R uses
partial argument matching on function arguments.
So:
> f <- function(foobar = 0){print(foobar)}
> f
function(foobar = 0){print(foobar)}
>
> f(fo=1)
[1] 1
> f(foo=1)
[1] 1
> f(foob=1)
[1] 1
> f(fooba=1)
[1] 1
> f(foon=1)
Error in f(foon = 1) : unused argument(s) (foon ...)
>
> f(foobar2=1)
Error in f(foobar2 = 1) : unused argument(s) (foobar2 ......