Message-ID: <9E12885B-F8E1-47D8-845B-26DE1939CCEA@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: 2009-04-19T20:03:21Z
From: Rolf Turner
Subject: explicit documentation (was: get() versus getAnywhere())
In-Reply-To: <49EAE7FD.5070902@pburns.seanet.com>
On 19/04/2009, at 8:59 PM, Patrick Burns wrote:
> 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.
>
> I think this unfairly blames R-core for being human.
Why is this unfair? R-core is supposed to be superhuman! :-)
cheers,
Rolf
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