split(factor, shortGroupVector) gives incorrect results in R 2.12.2

split(factor(letters[1:3]), c("Group one", "Group two"))

Yes, that's a bug (at the very least, it is against documented behavior)

The strong suspicion is that 

    ind <- .Internal(split(seq_along(f), f))

should have seq_along(x) , not f. But would that break for other reasons? 

(It would! Surv() objects to name one case. In general, we seem to be in trouble if "[" and length() methods are not compatible.)

Peter Dalgaard
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
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