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Message-ID: <m2odkc4fup.fsf@ziti.local>
Date: 2007-05-22T23:07:42Z
From: Seth Falcon
Subject: RFC: adding an 'exact' argument to [[
In-Reply-To: <m2irarh1mu.fsf@ziti.fhcrc.org> (Seth Falcon's message of "Thu, 17 May 2007 09:10:33 -0700")

Hi again,

Robert has committed the proposed patch to R-devel.  So [[ now has an
'exact' argument and the behavior is as described:

Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> writes:
>    1. [[ gains an 'exact' argument with default value NA
>
>    2. Behavior of 'exact' argument:
>
>       exact=NA
>           partial matching is performed as usual, however, a warning
>           will be issued when a partial match occurs.  This is the
>           default.
>
>       exact=TRUE
>           no partial matching is performed.
>
>       exact=FALSE
>           partial matching is allowed and no warning issued if it
>           occurs.
>

+ seth

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