Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.58.0310170644370.180024@homer07.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2003-10-17T15:45:17Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: data() misbehaving inside a function
In-Reply-To: <16271.40957.398812.546319@mithrandir.hornik.net>
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