[R] Quasi-bug in boxplot().

[Rolf Turner]

In response to my comment

>  > However it seems to me that partial argument matching ***ought*** to
>  > work --- i.e. it ought to be possible to make it work --- in such
>  > a context.  Am I suffering from a misapprehension?

Brian Ripley wrote

>  It is defined *not* to work.  The call is
>  
>       boxplot(x, ..., range = 1.5, width = NULL, varwidth = FALSE,
>               notch = FALSE, outline = TRUE, names, boxwex = 0.8, plot = TRUE,
>               border = par("fg"), col = NULL, log = "", pars = NULL,
>               horizontal = FALSE, add = FALSE, at = NULL)
>  
>  and argument after ... are not partially matched.
>  
>  See, e.g. `S Programming' p.40.

O.K. That's clear enough now.  But ***WHY***?  I.e. why structure the
arguments of boxplot() in this way?  I.e. why put the ... argument
before everything but x, so that partial matching cannot be used on
the rest of the arguments?

					cheers,

						Rolf Turner

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