From cherrera at cs.nmsu.edu  Wed Aug 13 05:25:27 2008
From: cherrera at cs.nmsu.edu (cherrera at cs.nmsu.edu)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:25:27 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Rd] Column name disappears when indexing a single column (PR#12532)
Message-ID: <20080813032528.24B8E282EFF7@mail.pubhealth.ku.dk>

Good Day,
  I can understand that after indexing a single column in a matrix, R will return a vector instead of the single column.  However, during the conversion to a vector, the column name is lost.
  I was wondering if it would be better to have R return a single column matrix (retaining the column name), instead of automatically converting to a vector.  Users could use as.vector() to convert afterwards.

Thanks,
CMHJ  
<<insert bug report here>>



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[Rd] Column name disappears when indexing a single column (PR#12532)
cherrera at cs.nmsu.edu