Hi, On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:55 PM, JulioSergio <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm studying lists and I came to an example where > >> L > $name > [1] "Fred" > > $wife > [1] "Mary" > > $no.children > [1] 4 > > $child.ages > [1] 4 7 9 > > then following the instructions to extend the list with a new component, I > executed: > >> L[5] <-list(NewName="something")
You've assigned a list to the 5th element of L, not the character vector you seem to be expecting. You probably want: L["NewName"] <- "something" or one of the many potential variants. Sarah > and the new list I got was: > >> L > $name > [1] "Fred" > > $wife > [1] "Mary" > > $no.children > [1] 4 > > $child.ages > [1] 4 7 9 > > [[5]] > [1] "something" > > Here the 5th element lacks the name "NewName" ... maybe this is a bug. Do you > have any comments? > > Thanks, > > Sergio. > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
