We extract energies and widths of the ground states of ^5He and ^5Li from recent single--level R--matrix fits to the spectra of the ^3H( d,γ)^5He and the ^3He( d,γ)^5Li reactions. The widths obtained differ significantly from the formal R--matrix values but they are close to those measured as full widths at half maxima of the spectra in various experiments. The energies are somewhat lower than those given by usual estimates of the peak positions. The extracted values are close to the S--matrix

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... oles calculated previously from the multi--term analyses of the N-^4He elastic scattering data.