data.frame, cbind is inconsistent with S on logicals (PR#316)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

R 0.65.1 (and R-devel 09/11/99)

> z <- data.frame(a=1:3)
> b <- rep(NA, 3)
> mode(b)
[1] "logical"
# how many of you expected that? I had forgotten!
> zz <- cbind(z, b)
> zz
  a  b
1 1 NA
2 2 NA
3 3 NA
> class(zz$b)
[1] "factor"

whereas in S it is NULL and zz$b is of mode "numeric".

The same thing happens with data.frame

zz <- data.frame(a, b)

gives zz$b as a factor in R and numeric in S.

I don't think this is a desirable difference, at least with all NAs!

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