And also:
> mapply(paste, c(a="A"), character(), USE.NAMES = TRUE)
Error in names(answer) <- names1 :
'names' attribute [1] must be the same length as the vector [0]
When the shortest arguments get recycled to the length of the longest,
shouldn't their names also get recycled?
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Hi,
in R-devel (4.2.0), we now get:
> mapply(paste, "A", character(), USE.NAMES = TRUE)
named list()
Now, in ?mapply we have:
USE.NAMES: logical; use the names of the first ... argument, or if
that is an unnamed character vector, use that vector as the names.
This basically says we should get: