diag()

[Jonathan Rougier]

I would like to suggest a slight modification to diag().  In the case
where x is a matrix with both row names and column names the same, it
would be reasonable if the resulting vector also had those names.  I often
use diag() on variance matrices, where this modification is helpful. 

The modification requires replacing 

    if (is.matrix(x) && nargs() == 1) 
        return(c(x)[1 + 0:(min(dim(x)) - 1) * (dim(x)[1] + 1)])

the first two lines, with something like

    if (is.matrix(x) && nargs() == 1) {
        y <- c(x)[1 + 0:(min(dim(x)) - 1) * (dim(x)[1] + 1)]
        if (!is.null(nms <- dimnames(x)) && all(nms[[1]]==nms[[2]]))
          names(y) <- nms[[1]]
        return(y)
    }

Just a thought,  Jonathan.

Jonathan Rougier                       Science Laboratories
Department of Mathematical Sciences    South Road
University of Durham                   Durham DH1 3LE

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