[Rd] round() and signif() do not check argument names when a single argument is given

2020-05-22 Thread Shane Mueller
Hi, I was told to send this to the -devel list instead of posting to bugzilla. When round our signif are called with a single named argument, R does not check the name and runs the function with that named argument directly as the first argument, using 0.0 or 6.0 (6 in the case of signif) for th

Re: [Rd] round() and signif() do not check argument names when a single argument is given

2020-05-23 Thread Shane Mueller
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:55 PM David Winsemius wrote: > The premise in the first few lines of your preamble is at odds (in the > logical sense) with my understanding of primitive function behavior. Try: > > data.frame(x=1:2,y=letters[1:2])[j=2, i=1] > > David > I had never seen naming indexes o