From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Fri Aug  8 15:22:53 2003
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: Fri Aug  8 16:22:55 2003
Subject: [Rd] Wish (PR#3690)
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a.buness@dkfz.de writes:

> Full_Name: Andreas Buness
> Version: 1.7.1
> OS: Unix
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.174.53.122)
> 
> 
> I would like to ask you to enhance the apply function
> with an option drop=FALSE similar to the one existing
> for subsetting of arrays. Or any other mechanism to get
> control on the dimensionality of an object resulting 
> from an apply call. This could facilitate more robust 
> programming.

Don't you mean simplify=TRUE similar to sapply()? This has been
suggested a couple of times. Or how do you intend 'drop' to work?

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[Rd] Wish (PR#3690)
Peter Dalgaard BSA