Dear Thomas, > This looks deliberate (there is a function NonNullStringMatch that does > the matching). I assume this is because there is no other way to > indicate that an element has no name.
> If so, it is a documentation bug -- help(names) and FAQ 7.14 should > specify this behaviour. Too late for 2.2.0, unfortunately. I respectfully disagree: the element has a name, its an empty string. Of course "" is a doubtful name for an element, but as long as we allow this name when assigning names()<- we also should handle it like a name in subscripting. The alternative would be to disallow "" in names at all. However, both alternatives rather look like code changes, not only documentation. Best regards Jens Oehlschlägel -- Highspeed-Freiheit. Bei GMX supergünstig, z.B. GMX DSL_Cityflat, ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
