How does R treat positional arguments

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Published on 2013-10-26T03:51:30Z Indexed on 2013/10/26 3:53 UTC
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I'm a python guy and very new to R (so far, all I've done is copy-paste code and screen-shot the resulting, graph).

I would now like to actually learn the language so that I can draw useful plots (right now, I am trying to plot this).

In attempting my first plot, I came across this function call:

sets_options("universe", seq(from = 0, to = 25, by = 0.1))

Now, I would like to know if I can achieve the same result by calling

sets_options("universe", seq(0, 25, 0.1))

The help page for seq doesn't speak to this specifically (or I'm not reading it correctly), so I was hoping someone could shed some light on how R handles positional arguments

I tried calling the function that way in R and it worked (no syntax errors, etc), but I don't know how to test the output of that function, so I'm forced to ask here

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