[Rd] should lapply preserve attributes?

[Timothy H. Keitt]

I have an application where I need to preserve object attributes across
calls to 'lapply'. The current definition is:

lapply <- function (X, FUN, ...) 
{
    FUN <- match.fun(FUN)
    if (!is.list(X)) 
        X <- as.list(X)
    rval <- .Internal(lapply(X, FUN))
    names(rval) <- names(X)
    return(rval)
}

Would it make sense to replace

	names(rval) <- names(X)

with

	attributes(rval) <- attributes(X)

?? I can, of course, make a local function for this, but wondered if
this change would be useful in general.

Cheers,
Tim

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Timothy H. Keitt
Department of Ecology and Evolution
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, New York 11794 USA
Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/
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