[Rd] apply on logical data frame together with all (PR#6560)

[Peter Dalgaard]

roland.puntaier at chello.at writes:

> Full_Name: Roland Puntaier
> Version: 1.8.1
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (62.99.238.78)
> 
> 
> I have a data frame with some columns being logical.
> I wanted to calculate a column that is an AND combination of the other logical
> columns.
> I tried to use
>   apply(df,1,all)
> It did not work because of the implicit string conversion.
> So I made the functions
>   All<-function(...) all(as.logical(...))#because all cannot be used with apply
>   Any<-function(...) any(as.logical(...))#because any cannot be used with apply
> Now 
>   apply(df,1,All)
> seemed to work,
> but produced some NAs where there was no reason for them.
> I debugged apply and found that some logical values are transformed to " TRUE"
> instead of "TRUE". I did not follow that up closer. Instead I worked around it
> by doing the string conversion myself and then call apply(dfc,1,All)

It's as documented (i.e. no bug) and the five-letter field for TRUE is
consequence of using format(). 

Behaviour has been changed in r-devel though, since you weren't the
first to be annoyed by it....

Meanwhile, I believe that do.call("cbind",df) is a better workaround.

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