On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:16:44 -0500 Andrew Simmons <akwsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried this again with R 2.15.3, the oldest version I have installed, > and I still got the same behaviour. It extracts the first exact match, > then the only partial match, then NULL. Thanks for that. I am *sure* that I had problems with lists (say "xxx") that had entries "ylengths" and (later) "y". I got into trouble when I did xxx$y. This produced the value of xxx[["ylengths"]], not of xxx[["y"]], which of course caused chaos. Now xxx$y produces xxx[["y"]] as desired. But you say that nothing has changed! The only explanation that I can think of is that the Universe (including its past) has changed, while I wasn't looking. That seems to keep happening to me! :-) (Cf. "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula le Guin.) cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
