> William Dunlap via R-devel
> on Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:40:18 -0800 writes:
> Is there a reason that array() silently ignores dimnames
> that are not a list but matrix() gives an error?
>> str(matrix(11:14, 2, 2, dimnames=c("Rows","Cols")))
> Error in matrix(11:14, 2, 2
> Martin Maechler
> on Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:32:51 +0100 writes:
> John Chambers
> on Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:11:05 -0800 writes:
>> Somehow, the most obvious fixes are always back-incompatible these days.
>> The example intrigued me, so I looked into it a bit (should
As I tried to say on Dec. 11, there are two levels of "fix":
1. The fix to the complaint in the OP's subject heading is to conform to the
default third argument, strict=TRUE: as(1L, "numeric") == 1.0
This generates some incompatibilities, as for classes that extend "numeric".
But still leaves
