[R] explicit documentation (was: get() versus getAnywhere())

ronggui ronggui.huang at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 06:06:05 CEST 2009


It is always unfair to complain about volunteer work, and what you
should do is to make contributions.

2009/4/20 Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>:
>
> On 19/04/2009, at 8:59 PM, Patrick Burns wrote:
>
>> Rolf Turner wrote:
>>>
>>> On 17/04/2009, at 10:21 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>
>>>> Benjamin Tyner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks Duncan. Perhaps this merits a more explicit note in the
>>>>> documentation?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The quote I gave is from the documentation.  How could it be more
>>>> explicit?
>>>
>>> This is unfortunately typical of the attitude of R-core people toward the
>>> documentation.  ``It's clear.'' they say.  ``It's explicit.''  Clear and
>>> explicit once you *know* what it's saying.  Not before, but.
>>
>> I think this unfairly blames R-core for being human.
>
>        Why is this unfair?  R-core is supposed to be superhuman! :-)
>
>                cheers,
>
>                        Rolf
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