[Rd] as.data.frame.list (PR#6782)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Can I make a suggestion, please?  R 1.9.0 was in alpha/beta test for over
a month, and a submitting a whole bunch of `bug' reports days after
release is about the maximally sub-optimal timing.  Please make the effort
to look at the development versions we make available.

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 hosking at watson.ibm.com wrote:

> Full_Name: J. R. M. Hosking
> Version: 1.9.0
> OS: Windows 2000
> Submission from: (NULL) (129.34.20.23)
> 
> 
> Browsing the code of as.data.frame.list, I see
> 
>   cn[m] <- paste("..adfl.", cn[m], sep = "")
> 
> and 5 lines later
> 
>   names(x) <- sub("^..adfl.", "", names(x))
> 
> It looks as though the latter should be
> 
>   names(x) <- sub("^\\.\\.adfl\\.", "", names(x))
> 
> This won't often matter, but perhaps one day somebody may type something like
> 
>   as.data.frame(list(row.names=1:2,foxglove=3:4,toadflax=5:6))
> 
> 
> 
> (R 1.9.0, Windows binary from CRAN)
> 
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