Message-ID: <21FC9DE4-DB71-48C5-BA59-CEBFB71EA422@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 2009-04-19T20:01:34Z
From: Rolf Turner
Subject: get() versus getAnywhere()
In-Reply-To: <49EAF2A7.70509@stats.uwo.ca>
On 19/04/2009, at 9:45 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 18/04/2009 8:47 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> On 17/04/2009, at 10:21 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>
>>> Benjamin Tyner wrote:
>>>> Many thanks Duncan. Perhaps this merits a more explicit note in the
>>>> documentation?
>>>>
>>> The quote I gave is from the documentation. How could it be more
>>> explicit?
>>
>> This is unfortunately typical of the attitude of R-core people toward
>> the
>> documentation. ``It's clear.'' they say. ``It's explicit.''
>> Clear and
>> explicit once you *know* what it's saying. Not before, but.
>
> But I didn't say that. I asked how to make it more explicit.
Oh come on Duncan! You did *not*. You asked (rhetorical
question) ``How could it be more explicit?'' (Implied: How
could it ***possibly*** be more explicit?)
>
>>
>> In this case the documentation is quite opaque to me, and I would
>> suspect
>> to a good many like me.
>
> What change would make it less opaque?
For one thing, point out ***explicitly***, as you did in your post, that
getAnywhere() doesn't actually get ***anywhere***. Only some wheres.
(How's that for Canuck English, Berwin?)
cheers,
Rolf
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