Here is the function in question [1]; it has arguments named "give.attr", "give.head", "give.length", among others. It doesn't seem at all a good idea to renam

Here is the function in question [1]; it has arguments named "give.attr", "give.head", "give.length", among others. It doesn't seem at all a good idea to rename "give.head" to something else, as it would break the API and it would be inconsistent with how the other arguments are named. The R team devs were unnecessarily rude but the bug report was misguided. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/str.html https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/str...