William Dunlap wrote:> Should the deparse.level=2 argument to cbind
> and rbind be abandoned? It is minimally documented,
> not used in any CRAN package, and causes some problems.
Bill,
This code has been touched by Brian quite recently. Try again with a
current r-devel checkout. (Specifically, later than r51007).
-p
> E.g.,
>
> (a) If a matrix input has row names but not column names
> cbind(deparse.level=2,...) stops.
>
m<-matrix(11:14,nrow=2,ncol=2,dimnames=list(Row=c("R1","R2"),Col=charact
> er()))
>> cbind(m, 101:102, deparse.level=2)
> Error in cbind(m, 101:102, deparse.level = 2) :
> SET_STRING_ELT() can only be applied to a 'character vector', not
a
> 'NULL'
>
> (b) If no argument is tagged then deparse.level=2
> makes no column names, while deparse.level=1 makes
> names for for the simple cases (where the argument
> is a name):
>> x<-1:3
>> cbind(x, 11:13, deparse.level=1)
> x
> [1,] 1 11
> [2,] 2 12
> [3,] 3 13
>> cbind(x, 11:13, deparse.level=2)
> [,1] [,2]
> [1,] 1 11
> [2,] 2 12
> [3,] 3 13
>
> (If one argument is tagged, teens=11:13, then
> deparse.level=2 will name columns that
> deparse.level=1 will not, like x+1, which I
> think is the intended behavior.)
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