R devel - May 2002 - [.data.frame handles drop inconsistently (PR#1530)

R 1.5.0:

d.df <- data.frame(x = 1:3, y = c("A","D","E"),
z = c(6,9,10))
d.df[1,1:3]
xx <- d.df[1,]
xx[, 1:3]

d.df[1,1:3] and xx[, 1:3] should be the same, and they are in S.

d.df[1,1:3] is a data frame.

xx[, 1:3] is a list, and it should not be.
xx[, 1:3, drop=FALSE]  is the desired answer.

(This cropped up when looking at merge, which was caught by it.)

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