From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Fri Jul 23 08:15:03 1999
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:15:03 +0200
Subject: lapply( *, names) -- bug ?!
Message-ID: <199907230715.JAA04888@sophie.ethz.ch>

This came on S-news

The more direct test being

sapply(c(a=1,b=2), names)

Problem:  
	  R ("all" versions) 
	  behaves the same as S+5.1, which is wrong IMO.

{since some might disagree,  I didn't yet post to R-bugs ..}

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:14:57 -0230
From: "Paul Y. Peng" <ypeng@math.mun.ca>
To: s-news <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
Subject: [S] Feature or bug?

In S-PLUS 3.3 (DEC Alpha) and S-PLUS 2000,

> z <- c("a"=1, "b"=2)
> lapply(z, function(x)names(x))
$a:
[1] "a"

$b:
[1] "b"

But in S-PLUS 5.1 (Linux),

> z <- c("a"=1, "b"=2)
> lapply(z, function(x)names(x))
$a:
NULL

$b:
NULL

Is this a new feature of S-PLUS 5? Do I miss anything in
S-PLUS 5? Thank you for your help.
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lapply( *, names) -- bug ?!
Martin Maechler