R devel - Sep 2009 - clearNames and unname

Just noticed these two functions (clearNames is stats and unname in
base) that do the same thing.

Hadley

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Hadley,

clearNames don't work with matrices:

m <- matrix(1:9, ncol = 3, dimnames = list(letters[1:3], letters[1:3]))
clearNames(m)
unname(m)



On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Hadley Wickham <hadley@rice.edu> wrote:
> Just noticed these two functions (clearNames is stats and unname in
> base) that do the same thing.
>
> Hadley
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>>>>> "HW" == Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu>
>>>>>     on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:16:27 -0500 writes:
    HW> Just noticed these two functions (clearNames is stats and unname in
    HW> base) that do the same thing.

clearNames looks like an accident.  unname() has existed for
much longer {and as someone else said}, 
has been more general, too.

Martin