Only for the record, an unnecessary overhead when nothing is assigned:
> x <- integer(10) > str(x) int [1:10] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > x[c()] <- 1.0; > str(x) num [1:10] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 'x' could equally well have renamed untouched. /Henrik ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel