[R] confused about names()

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> John Aitchison writes:

> Hi all .. there is no doubt a simple answer to this, but it eludes me.

> In the first session below ( with jarque.bera.test)  you will see that 
> p.value prints with a name of X-squared .

> This is easily fixed by changing the source to assign a 
> more appropriate name - no name is assigned in the source listing
> below (the original source code of jarque.bera.test() from tseries).. but 
> what I don't understand is how this (the name of X-squared) has arisen.

> In the second session (with Box.test from ts) , p.value prints without
> a name as I would expect .. the code looks superficially similar to me, so
> obviously I am missing something.

> wait a minute  .. names seem to be inherited!  yes. so this is really
> more likely a minor glitch in jarque.bera.test due to assigning
>     names(STATISTIC) <- "X-squared"
> too early, or omitting to assign a name to PVAL

Interesting.  I think most of the ctest functions will actually come up
with a names attribute of the test statistic as eventually we do
	PVAL <- psomething(STATISTIC, PARAMS, ...)

For htest output this is not a problem because print.htest() actually
uses format.pval() for printing which gets rid of the names attribute.

The question is whether we think that this is a bug.

-k
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