run caret method without parameters - r

I'm trying to run a caret method that not requires parameters, such as lda, the example below uses "lvq" which needs 2 parameters (size and k)
set.seed(7)
# load the library
library(caret)
# load the dataset
data(iris)
# prepare training scheme
control <- trainControl(method="repeatedcv", number=10, repeats=3)
# design the parameter tuning grid
grid <- expand.grid(size=c(5,10,20,50), k=c(1,2,3,4,5))
# train the model
model <- train(Species~., data=iris, method="lvq", trControl=control, tuneGrid=grid)
# summarize the model
print(model)
plot(model)
I tried to work it out assigning tuneGrid=NULL
set.seed(7)
# load the library
library(caret)
# load the dataset
data(iris)
# prepare training scheme
control <- trainControl(method="repeatedcv", number=10, repeats=3)
# design the parameter tuning grid
grid <- expand.grid(size=c(5,10,20,50), k=c(1,2,3,4,5))
# train the model
model <- train(Species~., data=iris, method="lda", trControl=control, tuneGrid=NULL)
# summarize the model
print(model)
plot(model)
But I get the error
There are no tuning parameters for this model

Caret contains a number of LDA methods like:
method = "lda" involves no tuning parameters.
method = "lda2" allows to tune dimen (number of discriminant vectors).
If you want to tune parameters (and that must be only number of discriminant vectors), you must use "lda2". "lda" do not allows tuning so to run it you must delete tuneGrid. Deleting tuneGrid you just switch off cross-validation.

I'll answer my own question, I think that just deleting the tuneGrid=NULL works fine
set.seed(7)
# load the library
library(caret)
# load the dataset
data(iris)
# prepare training scheme
control <- trainControl(method="repeatedcv", number=10, repeats=3)
# design the parameter tuning grid
grid <- expand.grid(size=c(5,10,20,50), k=c(1,2,3,4,5))
# train the model
model <- train(Species~., data=iris, method="lda", trControl=control)
# summarize the model
print(model)

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