From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Fri Oct  8 11:32:10 1999
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 08 Oct 1999 12:32:10 +0200
Subject: dimnames and subscripting (PR#293)
In-Reply-To: J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk's message of "Fri, 8 Oct 1999 10:43:53 +0200 (MET DST)"
References: <199910080843.KAA09091@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <x27lkycfdh.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

J.C.Rougier@durham.ac.uk writes:

> I am not sure that this is a bug, but it was unexpected -- of course my
> expectations are fallible, eg column ordering in model.matrix()!  When an
> array is subscripted the names of the dimnames list are lost (v 64.1). 
> 
> fred <- array(1:12, 2:4, list(A = letters[1:2], B = letters[3:5], C =
>     letters[6:9]))
> 
> dimnames(fred)
> dimnames(fred[1, , ])
> dimnames(fred[1, , , drop=FALSE])
> 
> In the first case I expected names B and C to be preserved; in the second
> case, not quite so clear-cut, I also expected B and C to be preserved.

Yep, it's a bug. Same as reported as PR#257 by Andreas W. Still
pending investigation...

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dimnames and subscripting (PR#293)
Peter Dalgaard BSA