[Rd] unexpected '[-.data.frame' result

2005-10-26 Thread Charles C. Berry
Is this a bug? If not, I am curious to know why '[-.data.frame' was designed to yield a.frame$y != a.frame$z rather than refusing to carry out the operation at all. a.frame - data.frame( x=letters[1:5] ) a.frame[ 2:5, y ] - letters[2:5] a.frame[[ z ]][ 2:5 ] - letters[2:5] a.frame x

Re: [Rd] unexpected '[-.data.frame' result

2005-10-26 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Charles C. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this a bug? If not, I am curious to know why '[-.data.frame' was designed to yield a.frame$y != a.frame$z rather than refusing to carry out the operation at all. a.frame - data.frame( x=letters[1:5] ) a.frame[ 2:5, y ] - letters[2:5]

Re: [Rd] unexpected '[-.data.frame' result

2005-10-26 Thread Charles C. Berry
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Charles C. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this a bug? If not, I am curious to know why '[-.data.frame' was designed to yield a.frame$y != a.frame$z rather than refusing to carry out the operation at all. a.frame - data.frame( x=letters[1:5]