Dear all, I resend this mail because it was blocked: I submitted a bug from the r-bug webpage and hypatia seems to block mail that is send from a different IP than that usually associated with the email. Looks like it is currently impossible to correctly submit bugs from the website. However, here is the original bug report:
(PR#8161) Dear all, The following shows cases where accessing elements via their name fails (if the name is a string of length zero). Best regards Jens Oehlschlägel > p <- 1:3 > names(p) <- c("a","", as.character(NA)) > p a <NA> 1 2 3 > > for (i in names(p)) + print(p[[i]]) [1] 1 [1] 2 [1] 3 > > # error 1: vector subsripting with "" fails in second element > for (i in names(p)) + print(p[i]) a 1 <NA> NA <NA> 3 > > # error 2: print method for list shows no name for second element > p <- as.list(p) > > > for (i in names(p)) + print(p[[i]]) [1] 1 [1] 2 [1] 3 > > # error 3: list subsripting with "" fails in second element > for (i in names(p)) + print(p[i]) $a [1] 1 $"NA" NULL $"NA" [1] 3 > > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status major 2 minor 1.1 year 2005 month 06 day 20 language R # -- replication code ---------------------------------- p <- 1:3 names(p) <- c("a","", as.character(NA)) p for (i in names(p)) print(p[[i]]) # error 1: vector subsripting with "" fails in second element for (i in names(p)) print(p[i]) # error 2: print method for list shows no name for second element p <- as.list(p) for (i in names(p)) print(p[[i]]) # error 3: list subsripting with "" fails in second element for (i in names(p)) print(p[i]) -- ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel