1. This is not a bug (as you seem to realize), so it should not be sent to 
r-bugs.

2. You seem to want the drop=FALSE argument to [], as in FAQ 7.5

     -thomas


On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Good Day,
 I can understand that after indexing a single column in a matrix, R will 
return a vector instead of the single column.  However, during the conversion 
to a vector, the column name is lost.
 I was wondering if it would be better to have R return a single column matrix 
(retaining the column name), instead of automatically converting to a vector.  
Users could use as.vector() to convert afterwards.

Thanks,
CMHJ
<<insert bug report here>>



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