[Rd] Tiny bug in lm()?
Martin Maechler
m@echler @ending from @t@t@m@th@ethz@ch
Wed Jul 18 15:40:53 CEST 2018
>>>>> Brett Presnell
>>>>> on Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:57:04 +0100 writes:
> I meant ncol(y) of course.
> Brett Presnell <presnell using ufl.edu> writes:
>> I suppose that this never affects anything, but in line
>> 57 of lm.R, where the coefficients are defined for an
>> empty model, when y is a matrix, shouldn't the value be
>> matrix(,0,nrow(y)) rather than matrix(,0,3)?
Yes ("ncol(y)") and actually it should be 'double', not
'logical'.
OTOH: Multivariate empty models are probably pretty rare, so no
wonder this has never been reported the last 13.374 years
this has been in the sources.
Of course, I will still fix it. Thank you, Brett, for reporting!
Martin
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