[Rd] Optimisation methods

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
04 Dec 2000 02:54:05 +0100


Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> I personally think that there is nothing that says that argument names
> must have any meaning in any language and hence one may spell them in
> any way we want.  But more realistically, in the above case I'd rather
> have
> 
> 	exampleFn <- function(param = "fing", ...)
> 
> which will make everyone happy.

Not me, but "param.style=" might. (I think the above indicates that
"fing" is a parameter, not a paramete?ri[sz]ation.)

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