It is common that some arguments will be silently ignored due to the presence of ... in the argument list.
R Core has released the chkDots() utility almost 10 years ago so it can warn when arguments are passed to ... but ignored: r-devel/r-svn@97d6701
But a number of base methods are not using this utility when they could. The goal of this issue is to list all the potential candidates before potentially opening a bugzilla issue / submitting a patch:
toString.default()as.data.frame.data.frame()as.data.frame.vector()as.data.frame.matrix()cut.default()mean.default()- ...
Other mechanism to guard against the presence of ...:
It is common that some arguments will be silently ignored due to the presence of
...in the argument list.R Core has released the
chkDots()utility almost 10 years ago so it can warn when arguments are passed to...but ignored: r-devel/r-svn@97d6701But a number of base methods are not using this utility when they could. The goal of this issue is to list all the potential candidates before potentially opening a bugzilla issue / submitting a patch:
toString.default()as.data.frame.data.frame()as.data.frame.vector()as.data.frame.matrix()cut.default()mean.default()Other mechanism to guard against the presence of
...:split.default()