>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>> on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:14:24 +0200 writes:
>>>>> "HW" == Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu>
>>>>> on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:16:27 -0500 writes:
HW> Just noticed these two functions (clearNames is stats and unname in
HW> base) that do the same thing.
MM> clearNames looks like an accident. unname() has existed for
MM> much longer {and as someone else said},
MM> has been more general, too.
Hmm, the first part in the above may be wrong:
clearNames() has been part of the 'nls' package (before that
was integrated into 'stats'),
and the code of 'nls' may well have been almost as old as the
unname() function :
I see both in R 0.90.1 (December 15, 1999).
I see only about 5 usages of clearNames() in CRAN packages, and
none in the 300+ Bioconductor "Rpacks" packages.
Consequently, I'm proposing to deprecate clearNames() {for
unname()}.
Martin
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