On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:07 +0100, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> Some people may think it sensible that indexing a vector with an
> index of length N returns a vector of length N:
>
> > x[c("a","b","a")]
> a b a
> 1 2 1
I also thought of this side of it after I sent the original email, and I
realized that this probably would break a lot of stuff.
I think at the very least the documentation for '[' could be updated to
emphasize that only first matches are returned when indexing with a
character vector.
Thanks,
Jake
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