R devel - Jan 2016 - subscripting a table changed behavior in R devel

Hi,

With R 3.2.3:

   > t <- table(sample(6, 50, replace=TRUE), sample(4, 50, replace=TRUE))
   > class(t[1:3, ])
   [1] "matrix"

With R devel:

   > t <- table(sample(6, 50, replace=TRUE), sample(4, 50, replace=TRUE))
   > class(t[1:3, ])
   [1] "table"

This breaks some Bioconductor packages that are calling as.data.frame()
on the result of this subscripting (as.data.frame.table and
as.data.frame.matrix behave very differently).

Could this change be mentioned in the NEWS file?

Thanks,
H.

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