[Rd] is.vector(as.vector(x)) is FALSE

[Peter Dalgaard]

Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> ... I think I'd rather expect that
> 
>    as.vector(x1mat, mode = "list")
> 
> also removes the dim attributes.

Just checked, Splus seems to satisfy is.vector(as.vector(x)) for list
matrices and data frames. The R docs have

     'as.vector', a generic, attempts to coerce its argument into a
     vector of mode 'mode' (the default is to coerce to whichever mode
     is most convenient).  The attributes of 'x' are removed.

so I think there is a case for deeming the current behaviour to be a bug...

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