On 15/04/2008 8:36 PM, Ng Stanley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How to get assign an vector of words to associative array ?
>
>> a[["animal"]] <- c("dog", "cat")
> Error in a[["animal"]] <- c("dog", "cat") :
> more elements supplied than there are to replace
R uses named lists as associative arrays, but the line above is not
enough to create one. You need
a <- list()
a[["animal"]] <- c("dog", "cat")
The error message you saw is probably because "a" already existed, and
wasn't a list.
Duncan Murdoch
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