Nope. You misread I think. It says that use.names = TRUE causes mismatches to be **reported** by name rather than index, not that it is recursing by name. It still recurses by component indices.
However, I still think that is wrong. It is not reporting mismatches **by** name -- it is reporting mismatches **in** names as well as in value. Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:23 PM John Harrold <john.m.harr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > I believe I'm having trouble understanding the documentation for all.equal. > If I have two lists like this: > > t1 = list(a = c(1,2,3), > b = c("1", "2", "3")) > t2 = list( b = c("1", "2", "3"), > a = c(1,2,3)) > > If I read the documentation correctly, by setting use.names equal to TRUE I > believe this comparison should evaluate as true: > > all.equal(t1,t2, use.names=TRUE) > > However, I get the following output: > > which appears as though it is performing the comparison based on walking > through indices and comparing that way. > > [1] "Names: 2 string mismatches" > [2] "Component 1: Modes: numeric, character" > [3] "Component 1: target is numeric, current is character" > [4] "Component 2: Modes: character, numeric" > [5] "Component 2: target is character, current is numeric" > > Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? > -- > John > :wq > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.