[Rd] Re: [R] Unexpected behaviour of identical (PR#6799)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I wondered that, but I think we need to hear from the author of 
identical().

It is neater to have attributes printed in a consistent order, though.

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Tony Plate wrote:

> What about changing identical() to ignore the order of attributes?  Is 
> there any code anywhere that depends on the order of attributes, other than 
> identical()?  I've only seen attributes treated as an unordered set, and 
> never as an ordered list.  There are some functions in S-plus that change 
> the order of attributes, and the only thing this affects is 
> identical().  (Which in S-plus also pays attention to the order of attributes.)
> 
> -- Tony Plate
> 
> At Tuesday 05:42 AM 4/20/2004, p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk wrote:
> >"Swinton, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Swinton at astrazeneca.com> writes:
> >
> > >  # works as expected
> > > > ac <- c('A','B');
> > > > identical(ac,ac[1:2])
> > > [1] TRUE
> > >
> > >  #but
> > > > af <- factor(ac)
> > > > identical(af,af[1:2])
> > > [1] FALSE
> > >
> > > Any opinions?
> >
> >Did a cross-check with Splus and it doesn't do that , so I think it
> >qualifies as a bug. Shouldn't be too hard to fix (might lose a little
> >efficiencty though).
> >
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