It's been documented for a long time that NCOL(NULL) is 1. What
particular problems did you have in mind? There might be other ways to
guard against them.
Duncan Murdoch
On 23/09/2023 1:43 p.m., Simone Giannerini wrote:
Dear list,
I do not know what would be the 'correct' answer to the following but
I think that they should return the same value to avoid potential
problems and hard to debug errors.
Regards,
Simone
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NCOL(NULL)
[1] 1
NROW(NULL)
[1] 0
sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.1 RC (2023-06-08 r84523 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 22621)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Italian_Italy.utf8 LC_CTYPE=Italian_Italy.utf8
[3] LC_MONETARY=Italian_Italy.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Italian_Italy.utf8
time zone: Europe/Rome
tzcode source: internal
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.3.1
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