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From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Thomas Lumley
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:39 AM
To: Rod Montgomery
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] R annoyances
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Rod Montgomery wrote:
This one is actually a FAQ,
mtx[,1,drop=FALSE]
-thomas
I wonder whether there is, or should be, a way to set FALSE
There shouldn't be (apart from editing the code), because you
really don't want something this basic to be unpredictable.
There have been discussions at several times about whether
drop=FALSE or drop=TRUE should be the default. The decision
has always been that programmers can cope either way, but
that users probably don't expect mtx[,1] to be a vector, and
that they definitely don't expect mtx[1,1] to be a matrix.
-thomas