[R] names(dist(mat)) gives NULL in R 2.1.0

[Peter Dalgaard]

Elio Mineo <elio_mineo at economia.unipa.it> writes:

> In R 2.1.0 I have:
> 
> > names(dist(mat))
> NULL
> 
> I have tried this on Windows (precompiled binary distribution) and on
> Linux Mandrake 10.0 (R compiled from source code).
> Is this a bug or not?

Not.

>From the NEWS file:

    o   The S3 methods for getting and setting names of "dist" objects
        have been removed (as they provided names with a different
        length from the "dist" object itself).

(some side effects are fixed in 2.1.0-patched)

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