Thanks that help. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.