Re: [Rd] Inquiry about the behaviour of subsetting and names in matrices

2023-05-03 Thread GILLIBERT, Andre via R-devel
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Re: [Rd] Inquiry about the behaviour of subsetting and names in matrices

2023-05-03 Thread Karolis Koncevičius
Thank you for such a quick reply, here are some points that I think might have been missed: > I would state the question the other way : why are NAs integer indices > allowed? > In my experience, they are sometimes useful but they often delay the > detection of bugs. However, due to backward co

Re: [Rd] Inquiry about the behaviour of subsetting and names in matrices

2023-05-03 Thread GILLIBERT, Andre via R-devel
Karolis wrote: > Hello, > I have stumbled upon a few cases where the behaviour of naming and subsetting > in matrices seems unintuitive. > All those look related so wanted to put everything in one message. > 1. Why row/col selection by names with NAs is not allowed? > x <- setNames(1:10, le