Re: [Rd] Non-unique column names in data frames

2007-04-03 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, John Fox wrote: > Dear r-devel members, > > It's just been brought to my attention that R permits non-unique column > names in data frames -- e.g., via assignment to names() or colnames(). This > behaviour is consistent with the help files (as I discovered), but it's not > cons

[Rd] Non-unique column names in data frames

2007-04-01 Thread John Fox
Dear r-devel members, It's just been brought to my attention that R permits non-unique column names in data frames -- e.g., via assignment to names() or colnames(). This behaviour is consistent with the help files (as I discovered), but it's not consistent with the behaviour of rownames() and row.