[Rd] bug (?) in [.data.frame with matrix-like indexing

[Peter Dalgaard]

Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Consider in R-2.6.0 (also R-patched from yesterday):
>
> iris[1, c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE)]
> ##  Error in .subset2(xx, j) : recursive indexing failed at level 2
>
> iris[1, c(FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, FALSE, TRUE)]
> ## Error in .subset2(xx, j) : attempt to select less than one element
>
> i.e. matrix-like indexing on data.frames, one logically-indexed 
> dimension with only one value TRUE in it.
>
> It is not documented to work, but it did so in former versions of R.
> Is it a bug or withdrawn support?
>
>
>   
It's been reported before. Looks unintentional.

As I also said last time, the log for the relevant revision has

"make DF[, 1] and DF[1:m, 1] consistent"

(and it doesn't...)


> Uwe Ligges
>
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