[R] Muliple partial matches with pmatch

[John Maindonald]

I am using R0.64.1 under Windows 95.

The help for `pmatch' states that:

        If `duplicates.ok' is false multiple matches will result
        in the value of `nomatch' being returned, and if it is
        true, the index of the first matching value will be
        returned.

The help for pmatch gives the following examples:

        pmatch("m",   c("mean", "median", "mode")) # returns NA
        pmatch("med", c("mean", "median", "mode")) # returns 2

What I find is:

> pmatch("m",c("median","mean","mode"))
[1] 3

> pmatch("me",c("median","mean","mode"))
[1] NA

> pmatch("me",c("median","mean","mede"))
[1] 3

> pmatch("me",c("median","mean","mode"),duplicates.ok=T)
[1] 1

Is this a bug?

John Maindonald               email : john.maindonald at anu.edu.au        
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