Dear Thomas, actually, I have in the mean time already applied the changes I think are needed, both in the code and in the documentation.
So, in this case, it may be a waste of time to still open a bugzilla issue, I think. Here are my current changes (not yet committed; of course I would also add a NEWS entry, mentioning you): Index: src/library/base/R/table.R =================================================================== 53c53 < if (length(dnn) != length(args)) --- > if(length(args) == 1L || length(dnn) != length(args)) Index: src/library/base/man/table.Rd =================================================================== 23c23 < \code{table} uses the cross-classifying factors to build a contingency --- > \code{table} uses cross-classifying factors to build a contingency 41c41,42 < (including character strings), or a list (or data frame) whose --- > (including numbers or character strings), or a \code{\link{list}} (such > as a data frame) whose 67c68,69 < If the argument \code{dnn} is not supplied, the internal function --- > If the argument \code{dnn} is not supplied \emph{and} if \code{\dots} is > not one \code{list} with its own \code{\link{names}()}, the internal > function With regards, Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel