R devel - Jun 2011 - suggestion for subset.data.frame()

Hello,

Currently, subset.data.frame() does

    if (missing(subset))
            r <- TRUE
        else {

perhaps better might be:

    if (missing(subset))
            r <- rep(TRUE, nrow(x))
        else {

The rationale being, if 'x' has zero rows and 'subset' is
missing, we
don't want to end up with more rows than we started with:

     > subset(head(iris, 0), select = -Species)
       Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width
    NA           NA          NA           NA          NA

Thoughts?
-Ben