Message-ID: <57f080ce-b4b0-b7eb-7d54-631c86f1dcc5@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-09-24T16:09:38Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: Better 'undefined columns' error for data.frame
In-Reply-To: <99227c5557ca497d8dc601407b2592e9@chu-rouen.fr>
On 24/09/2022 9:56 a.m., GILLIBERT, Andre wrote:
> Dear R developers,
>
>
> One of the error messages that make me loose the most time is the "undefined columns selected" of `[.data.frame`.
>
> It ought to specify the list of bad column names, but currently does not.
>
> Fortunately, this can easily be fixed by a small patch I can write.
>
>
> Are you interested in that patch?
I doubt if you'll get an answer to this without showing it to us.
> Is there a standard way to transfer patches for feature requests?
The standard instructions are here: https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html .
You're offering an enhancement rather than a bug fix, but the process is
the same. But since your change is probably quite small, you might not
need to go through the whole process: proposing it on this mailing list
might be sufficient.
Duncan Murdoch