data() misbehaving inside a function
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Kurt Hornik wrote:
Peter Dalgaard writes:
Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> writes:
KH> Or get rid of non-standard evaluation and educate users to use quoted KH> strings where strings should be used.
and infuriate those who know and used the S language for more than 15 years, where help(help) has always worked?
help(help) might be unavoidable, but there is nothing incompatible with S about requiring the argument to data() to be quoted, and that was what the original question was about. -thomas