From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Nov 11 07:14:39 1999
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:14:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: expand.grid returns vector for single arg (PR#319)
In-Reply-To: <199911110240.DAA27576@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9911110711130.21442-100000@auk.stats>

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu wrote:

> IMHO,
> 
> expand.grid(1:3)
> 
> should return an object of class "data.frame".

[using 0.65.1 it returns its argument if there is just one]

It will in 0.90.0: this has already been altered:

BUG FIXES

...

    o   expand.grid returns a data frame even for one arg


I am not sure that is what I think it should do (no expanding goes on)
but it is what the documentation says and the prototype does.

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expand.grid returns vector for single arg (PR#319)
Prof Brian D Ripley