Should the deparse.level=2 argument to cbind
and rbind be abandoned? It is minimally documented,
not used in any CRAN package, and causes some problems.
E.g.,
(a) If a matrix input has row names but not column names
cbind(deparse.level=2,...) stops.
>
m<-matrix(11:14,nrow=2,ncol=2,dimnames=list(Row=c("R1","R2"),Col=charact
er()))
> cbind(m, 101:102, deparse.level=2)
Error in cbind(m, 101:102, deparse.level = 2) :
SET_STRING_ELT() can only be applied to a 'character vector', not a
'NULL'
(b) If no argument is tagged then deparse.level=2
makes no column names, while deparse.level=1 makes
names for for the simple cases (where the argument
is a name):
> x<-1:3
> cbind(x, 11:13, deparse.level=1)
x
[1,] 1 11
[2,] 2 12
[3,] 3 13
> cbind(x, 11:13, deparse.level=2)
[,1] [,2]
[1,] 1 11
[2,] 2 12
[3,] 3 13
(If one argument is tagged, teens=11:13, then
deparse.level=2 will name columns that
deparse.level=1 will not, like x+1, which I
think is the intended behavior.)
Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
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