Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305091535230.18953-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2003-05-09T14:43:46Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: getAttr problem
In-Reply-To: <BA5106B991DBAE49AEB14CB58EDFA7AA01188EE4@atlexm04.na.mirant.net>
On Fri, 9 May 2003, Stoyanov, Tsvetan wrote:
> It seems that getAttr doesn't return "names" attribute properly as in
Is this getAttrib?
> getAttrib(x, R_NamesSymbol));
Really? As it is widely used inside R, that seems implausible.
> If you look at section 4.7.4 in "Writing R Extensions", the second example of
> SEXP out(SEXP, SEXP) returns NULL for the names attribute of the
> outer product.
But the outer product is a matrix and does not have names, so NULL is
correct.
> This is true for R 1.7.0 on both Win2000 with mingw and Redhat 9.0 with gcc.
Well, the source code is the same for both systems, so that is not
surprising (and BTW `mingw' is on ix86 port of gcc, and RH9 (no .0?)
uses another ix86 port of gcc).
> Is there something I am missing?
Yes: could you supply a complete example with the results you get and an
explanation as to why you think it is wrong?
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