[R] Change of parsing parameters to functions between 0.63.1 and 0.63.3 ?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

    PD> Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
    >> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Athula Herath wrote:
    >> 
    >> > I wonder whether the mechanism of parsing parameters to functions
    >> has > changed between 0.63.1 and 0.63.3? The following code yeilds
    >> different
    >> 
    >> No, but the handling of attributes has.
    >> 
    >> > results in R 0.63.1 (Version 0.63.1 (Dec 5, 1998)) and R 0.63.3.
    >> > 
    >> > cave<-function(x,a,b) > { >
    >> return(c(mean(x[a],na.rm=T),mean(x[b],na.rm=T))) > } > datx <-
    >> data.frame(rbind(c(1,2,3,4),c(4,5,6,7))) >
    >> names(datx)<-c("A","B","C","D") > f1<-c("A","C") > f2<-c("B","D") >
    >> t1<-apply(datx,1,cave,f1,f2)
    >> 
    >> The help page for apply says

    PD> (moved to R-devel)

    PD> Hmm. I actually committed my patch for apply() before seeing Brians
    PD> reply. Given that

    PD> (a) The above code works as intended in Splus 3.4

    PD> (b) This is more or less orthogonal to the issue of having
    PD> attributes to the result of a subsetting operation (it has to do
    PD> with attributes on the arguments to FUN, not the result).

    PD> (c) Some effort was already being used in the case of more-than-one
    PD> dimensional slices to get the names passed down [using
    PD> array(newX[,i], d.call, dn.call) with dn.call containing the names]
    
    PD> ..should I consider that a bad move?
		           ^^^^^^
			   (your patch)
Yes, I actually think
your patch should be reverted ___ especially since it even breaks
     example(apply)

Martin
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