select not gets overruled

[rgknight]

Per Hadley's comment on the manipulatr thread, select is supposed to return the first instance of a name mentioned, i.e.,

names( select(iris, starts_with("S"), sepal.wid = Sepal.Width))
[1] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width"  "Species"  

is correct. However, when you use the not option, it gets overruled when additional conditions are specified, i.e.

> names( select(iris, -starts_with("P"), Sepal.Width))
[1] "Sepal.Width"

should return all names that don't start with P.

[hadley]

This now doesn't seem right to me - inclusion/exclusion should be applied from left-to-right, so that the last name should win

[hadley]

Closed in 713a15c etc