[R] 'autocompletion' of named elements of a list

[peter dalgaard]

On Mar 11, 2011, at 09:55 , Håvard Rue wrote:

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> 
> since NULL elements are removed from the list, and that A$a auto-expand
> to A$aa, my error appeared.
> 
> To me, this seems not a feature I want in order to have a robust
> program. 
> 

Partial matching of arguments and list item names is a feature long regretted by its inventors, but too late to remove. Too many people doing chisq.test(...)$exp etc.

> Is there any option to turn this ''feature'' off? 

No. It's not the sort of thing you want to control with an option. It's a nightmare when you think of package development. For one thing, your code would break if someone turned the option back on.

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