[R] automatic completion of object names

[Jeff Newmiller]

This has always been how the $ operator has worked.  See ?"[[", and use that operator directly if you want exact matching.
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knallgrau at gmx.com wrote:

>Hello there,
>
>I just upgraded to R 2.15 (from R 2.12) on a Windows XP machine and
>noticed some puzzling behaviour (that in my opinion did not exist in R
>2.12).
>
>It is possible now to call objects without spelling out the full object
>name. R now seems to use that (unique) object which shares the same
>beginning of the called object, even though the originally called
>object might not even exist. 
>
>This is quite awkwardly described, but perhaps you know what I'm
>talking about?
>
>Let's say I'm using the Mroz data supplied with the car package:
>
>require(car)
>data(Mroz)
>
>there is no variable called "w" in that dataframe, but calling 
>
>summary(Mroz$w) #### Mroz$w does not exist
>
>does not return any error but instead gives the same result as 
>
>summary(Mroz$wc) ##### exists in Mroz
>
>
>I find this behaviour *very* undesirable. Is there any way to switch it
>off?
>
>Best,
>Irene
>
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