Message-ID: <20040420114244.86AF4104BA@slim.kubism.ku.dk>
Date: 2004-04-20T13:42:46Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: Unexpected behaviour of identical (PR#6799)
"Swinton, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Swinton@astrazeneca.com> writes:
> # works as expected
> > ac <- c('A','B');
> > identical(ac,ac[1:2])
> [1] TRUE
>
> #but
> > af <- factor(ac)
> > identical(af,af[1:2])
> [1] FALSE
>
> Any opinions?
Did a cross-check with Splus and it doesn't do that , so I think it
qualifies as a bug. Shouldn't be too hard to fix (might lose a little
efficiencty though).
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