data.frame does not recycle consistently (PR#1713)

[Kevin.Wright@pioneer.com]

Full_Name: Kevin Wright
Version: 1.5.1
OS: Windows 95
Submission from: (NULL) (170.54.59.160)



Note that the examples below do work in S (S-Plus 2000).

It appears that data.frame does not recycle text strings.  Maybe has something
to do with coercion to factors???

> data.frame(x=1:2,y=1)
  x y
1 1 1
2 2 1

> data.frame(x=c("A","B"),y=T)
  x    y
1 A TRUE
2 B TRUE

> data.frame(x=c("A","B"),y="C")
Error in data.frame(x = c("A", "B"), y = "C") : 
        arguments imply differing number of rows: 2, 1


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