On 02 Dec 2016, at 23:13 , Hervé Pagès <hpa...@fredhutch.org> wrote:

> More generally one might reasonably expect 'unlist(x)' to be equivalent
> to 'do.call(c, x)' on a list 'x' where all the list elements are atomic
> vectors:

Well, both are generic, and e.g. there is no "Date" method for unlist(), but 
there is for c(). It is not clear that the two should be kept in lockstep and 
there is certainly no mechanism to enforce that.

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