On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Martin
Maechler<maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch>
>>>>>> on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 16:14:24 +0200 writes:
>
>>>>>> "HW" == Hadley Wickham <had...@rice.edu>
>>>>>> on Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:16:27 -0500 writes:
>
> HW> Just noticed these two functions (clearNames is stats and unname in
> HW> base) that do the same thing.
>
> MM> clearNames looks like an accident. unname() has existed for
> MM> much longer {and as someone else said},
> MM> has been more general, too.
>
> Hmm, the first part in the above may be wrong:
> clearNames() has been part of the 'nls' package (before that
> was integrated into 'stats'),
> and the code of 'nls' may well have been almost as old as the
> unname() function :
> I see both in R 0.90.1 (December 15, 1999).
>
> I see only about 5 usages of clearNames() in CRAN packages, and
> none in the 300+ Bioconductor "Rpacks" packages.
>
> Consequently, I'm proposing to deprecate clearNames() {for
> unname()}.
Fine with me. I had forgotten that we even wrote clearNames() for the
nls package.
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