[Rd] incomplete description of return value of stats::uniroot()?

2018-12-03 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
The "Value" section in the documentation of stats::uniroot() mentions component "init.it" of the returned result: > "... Further components may be added in future: component \code{init.it} was > added in \R 3.1.0." I don't see "init.it" described anywhere in that help page. It is technically

Re: [Rd] Unexpected argument-matching when some are missing

2018-12-03 Thread Emil Bode
Thanks as well! I'm now getting how it's exactly matched, but it still "feels wrong". Martins rewording is exactly what I meant/was concerned about. My intuition would say that anyone using ff(x=, ...) would not intent x to be matched to something else, but maybe I'm overlooking certain cases. Any

Re: [Rd] Unexpected argument-matching when some are missing

2018-12-03 Thread Martin Maechler
> Michael Lawrence > on Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:24:31 -0800 writes: > Argument matching is by name first, then the still missing > arguments are filled positionally. Unnamed missing > arguments are thus left missing. Does that help? Thank you, Michael! Unfortunately, it may n