I've now committed your patch proposal, almost unchanged, to R-devel (subversion rev 38792), so this will be available in R 2.4.0, and from tomorrow's R-devel snapshot.
Thank you, very much, Vincent! Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel