On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Martin Maechler wrote:
> This came on S-news
>
> The more direct test being
>
> sapply(c(a=1,b=2), names)
>
> Problem:
> R ("all" versions)
> behaves the same as S+5.1, which is wrong IMO.
>
> {since some might disagree, I didn't yet post to R-bugs ..}
I do. the argument is not a list, and lapply applies to lists.
So> as.list(c(a=1,b=2))
$a
[1] 1
$b
[1] 2
Fine. Note the names of the components are NULL.
>
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:14:57 -0230
> From: "Paul Y. Peng" <ypeng@math.mun.ca>
> To: s-news <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
> Subject: [S] Feature or bug?
>
> In S-PLUS 3.3 (DEC Alpha) and S-PLUS 2000,
>
> > z <- c("a"=1, "b"=2)
> > lapply(z, function(x)names(x))
> $a:
> [1] "a"
>
> $b:
> [1] "b"
>
> But in S-PLUS 5.1 (Linux),
>
> > z <- c("a"=1, "b"=2)
> > lapply(z, function(x)names(x))
> $a:
> NULL
>
> $b:
> NULL
>
> Is this a new feature of S-PLUS 5? Do I miss anything in
> S-PLUS 5? Thank you for your help.
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