[Rd] "[.data.frame" allows un-named 3rd subscript (PR#989)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu writes:

> Since the Extract page has usage as:
> 
>      x[i, j, ... , drop=TRUE]
> 
> I would expect that 'drop=' would need to be given to the third 'subscript'
> 
> > diag(4)[ , 4 , 4 ] # Forgot 'drop=' or added extra ','
> Error in diag(4)[, 4, 4] : incorrect number of dimensions
> > 
> > as.data.frame( diag(4) )[ , 4 , 4 ] # should return error, right?
> [1] 0 0 0 1
> 

And the bug is?

The generic indexing should really be x[...,drop=T].  Methods for
specific classes can specialize to a particular number of indices if
they want to, which is what is happening here

> get ("[.data.frame")
function (x, i, j, drop = if (missing(i)) TRUE else length(cols) == 
    1) 

one could fairly easily slip in a "..." argument after "j", and then
inside the function give an error if "..." is not empty, but what
would the point be?

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