From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Oct 22 12:00:39 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:00:39 +0100 (BST)
Subject: basename/dirname changes warning.
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210221156150.6162-100000@auk.stats>

basename and dirname in R <= 1.6.1 are not vectorized, and they silently
ignored all elements after the first in their input.

This was not documented, and e.g. undoc assumed basename was vectorized.

For R-patched I have added a check, and giving an argument of length more
than one is there an error.

For R-devel I have vectorized the code, and so an input of length 0 will no
longer be an error.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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basename/dirname changes warning.
Prof Brian D Ripley