R-alpha: jpn() port

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Finally, here's something that's also been on my mind for some time now
> (and also needed help in the port).  Code like
> 
> 	if(all(names(x)) == c("x", "y"))
> 
> fails if names(x) is NULL.  Is that really necessary?  (More precisely,
> obviously we only want to test whether the two objects have equal
> values, a la Lisp `equal').

According to my parenthesis count, that expression will fail in any
case! However, I get your drift. Splus has
> all(NULL)
[1] T
> any(NULL)
[1] F

Which makes sense for cases like yours. R should probably conform to
this. 

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