Hi, In R < 3.0.0, we used to get:
> substring(c(A="abcdefghij", B="123456789"), 2, 6:2) A B A B A "bcdef" "2345" "bcd" "23" "b" But in R >= 3.0.0, we get: > substring(c(A="abcdefghij", B="123456789"), 2, 6:2) [1] "bcdef" "2345" "bcd" "23" "b" The names are not propagated anymore. Is this an intended change or a bug? I can't find anything about this in the NEWS file. The man page for substring() in R >= 3.0.0 still states: Value: ... For ‘substring’, a character vector of length the longest of the arguments. This will have names taken from ‘x’ (if it has any after coercion, repeated as needed), and other attributes copied from ‘x’ if it is the longest of the arguments). Also note that the first argument of substring() is 'text' not 'x'. Thanks, H. -- Hervé Pagès Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024 E-mail: hpa...@fhcrc.org Phone: (206) 667-5791 Fax: (206) 667-1319 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel