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Here is a description and a proposed solution for a bug in unlist(). I've used version 2.7.2 RC (2008-08-18 r46382) to look at this, under linux. unlist(recursive=TRUE) incorrectly returns a factor with zero levels when passed either a nested list of factors, or a data frame containing only factor columns. You can't print() the result. x <- list(list(v=factor("a"))) str(unlist(x)) ## Factor w...

unlist(recursive=FALSE) returns NULL elements when passed a nested pairlist containing non-NULL data: x <- pairlist(pairlist(1:2)) unlist(x, recursive=FALSE) ## [[1]] ## NULL version 2.7.2 RC (2008-08-18 r46382) under linux I'm unaware of any motivation for constructing the above data structure, but if unlist is going to operate on it without error I would be surprised if that is the correct answer. However as I do not know anything about pairlists I have not submitted this to r-bugs. I'd also a...