1. This is not a bug (as you seem to realize), so it should not be sent to r-bugs.
2. You seem to want the drop=FALSE argument to [], as in FAQ 7.5
-thomas
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 cherrera at cs.nmsu.edu wrote:
Good Day, I can understand that after indexing a single column in a matrix, R will return a vector instead of the single column. However, during the conversion to a vector, the column name is lost. I was wondering if it would be better to have R return a single column matrix (retaining the column name), instead of automatically converting to a vector. Users could use as.vector() to convert afterwards. Thanks, CMHJ <<insert bug report here>> --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu arch = x86_64 os = linux-gnu system = x86_64, linux-gnu status = major = 2 minor = 7.1 year = 2008 month = 06 day = 23 svn rev = 45970 language = R version.string = R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) Locale: LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base
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