Indexing problem with matrix

Dear all, assume I have a matrix with just 1 row. Now suppose I want to
fetch 1st few rows from that matrix, however resulting object becomes
vector. Here is 1 such example:

matrix(1:5, 1)

? ? [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]

[1,] ? ?1 ? ?2 ? ?3 ? ?4 ? ?5

matrix(1:5, 1)[,-1]

[1] 2 3 4 5



Can somebody point me how to keep resulting object as matrix with same row?
Ofcourse I again make legitimate matrix with something like as.matrix()
function. However I believe there must be some more directly way with
indexing in some better way!



Thanks,


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