On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Edzer J. Pebesma wrote:
Is there a specific reason why, instead of
CHAR(STRING_ELT(chstr, 0));
The S-Plus compatible
CHARACTER_POINTER(chstr)[0]
does not work in R?
Yes.
This is really a question for R-devel, but briefly, R and S-PLUS store character vectors in very different ways. This worked prior to 1.2.0, but was changed as part of the price of the new (then) garbage collector.
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