[Rd] cbind.data.frame(.) S/R incompatibility

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:

> In S-plus (5.1),
> 
>  > cbind(data.frame(x=1,y=2), data.frame(x=4,u=3))
>    x y x1 u 
>  1 1 2  4 3
> 
> whereas in R, the 3rd name is "x", the same as the 1st one.
> I think R should behave the same as S+5.1..

Actually, that's an S/S incompatibility:

S-PLUS : Copyright (c) 1988, 1996 MathSoft, Inc.
S : Copyright AT&T.
Version 3.4 Release 1 for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.3 : 1996 
Working data will be in .Data 
cbind(data.frame(x=1,y=2), data.frame(x=4,u=3))
  x y x u 
1 1 2 4 3

(We might of course still want to follow the more recent S-PLUS,
although perhaps not put too draconian measures in to keep names
unique.)

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