[Rd] Subsetting row in single column matrix drops names in resulting vector

Dmitriy Selivanov @eliv@nov@dmitriy @ending from gm@il@com
Wed Nov 21 17:58:12 CET 2018


Hi Rui. Thanks for answer, I'm aware of drop = FALSE option. Unfortunately
it doesn't resolve the issue - I'm expecting to get a vector, not a matrix .

ср, 21 нояб. 2018 г. в 20:54, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas using sapo.pt>:

> Hello,
>
> Use drop = FALSE.
>
> a[1, , drop = FALSE]
> #     col1
> #row1    1
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rui Barradas
>
> Às 16:51 de 21/11/2018, Dmitriy Selivanov escreveu:
> > Hello here. I'm struggling to understand R's subsetting behavior in
> couple
> > of edge cases - subsetting row in a single column matrix and subsetting
> > column in a single row matrix. I've read R's docs several times and
> haven't
> > found answer.
> >
> > Consider following example:
> >
> > a = matrix(1:2, nrow = 2, dimnames = list(c("row1", "row2"), c("col1")))
> > a[1, ]
> > # 1
> >
> > It returns *unnamed* vector `1` where I would expect named vector. In
> fact
> > it returns named vector when number of columns is > 1.
> > Same issue applicable to single row matrix. Is it a bug? looks very
> > counterintuitive.
> >
> >
>


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Dmitriy Selivanov

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