glm code bug (PR#224)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 Bill.Venables@cmis.csiro.au wrote:

> Peter,

[Peter only fixes most of the bugs....]

> There is a clear and simple bug in glm() that I have noticed in
> 0.64.2 (Windows and Unix) but may have been present in earlier
> versions.

It has a long history: the expand.dots = FALSE was introduced in 0.63, 
but the second call has been wrong for longer.

> The two marked lines should clearly be
> 
>     call <- match.call()
> 
> and
> 
>     mf <- match.call(expand.dots = FALSE)

as in S.

I've committed this for 0.65.0.

We have had various discussions about glm: it is proving very hard to
maintain (that is, find the bugs) and is irritatingly different from S.
One option is to reimplement it.

Brian

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