My patch was not particularly great. I think the Peter's alternative makes (more) sense.
-roger On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk> wrote: > Roger D. Peng wrote: >> Hmm, I see what you mean, and I'd be willing to accept that logic if I >> could find a single other instance in the R documentation where that >> shorthand was used. But I suppose this might be the only instance >> where such a shorthand is necessary. > > Could you repeat what the patch was (presumably your mailer claimed that > it was non-text)? > > The text could probably improved if it confuses the reader. Most of what > it says is actually implied by the argument defaults (all.x=all, > all.y=all), and it is not perfectly logical anyway (all sets the > _default_ for all.x and all.y, but you can still set e.g. all=T, all.y=F). > > I think we could simplify the text to something like > > all: logical; Provides a convenient way to set both 'all.x' and > 'all.y' (defined below). > >> -roger >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen >> <khan...@stat.berkeley.edu> wrote: >>> Roger >>> >>> (I think) L is shorthand for some logical value, ie. TRUE or FALSE. That has >>> always been pretty clear to me. Your patch was stripped. >>> >>> Kasper >>> >>> On Mar 8, 2009, at 18:20 , Roger D. Peng wrote: >>> >>>> I've never quite understood the documentation for the 'all' argument >>>> to 'merge'. I'm pretty sure using 'all = L' doesn't work but I'm open >>>> to correction here. In any event, I've attached a patch. >>>> >>>> -roger >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalga...@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Roger D. Peng | http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
