R help - Jan 2018 - Stats reshape non-Longitudinal Example Correctness

Good day,

In the Examples section of the reshape function documentation is an example that
reshapes that data frame state.x77. However, the resulting long data frame
doesn't seem correct. It has three columns; Characteristic, Population and
state. The second column probably shouldn't be named Population because it
stores all of the values for all of the variables and only one of the variables
in the dataset is Population. I wouldn't expect to see values for Frost in
the Population column, for example. Is it a bug? I think that a column name such
as Value would be appropriate.
> sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2018-01-07 r74096)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

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Dario Strbenac
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia