[Rd] Warn on partial matches in R CMD check

[Yihui Xie]

+1 "What you write is **probably** what you get" sounds like a very
bad idea to me. The real solution to laziness should be
auto-completion instead of partial matching.

Regards,
Yihui


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all (but especially Kurt),
>
> Would it be possible to have a flag to R CMD check that warned on
> partial all matches, i.e. turning on:
>
> options(
>   warnPartialMatchDollar = TRUE,
>   warnPartialMatchArgs = TRUE,
>   warnPartialMatchAttr = TRUE
> )
>
> I think this is good practice for package code.
>
> I don't think it can currently be made part of the default (because
> sometimes the warnings come from other packages), but it would be
> really convenient to have as a switch.
>
> Hadley
>
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