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> Suppose I have a function that takes three numeric arguments x, y, and z, any
> of which may be scalars or vectors.
> Suppose further that the user takes one of the arguments, say y, as a vector
> with the other two as scalars.
> Is there an existing R function that will promote the other two arguments to
> vectors of the same size?
This depends on what you mean by 'promote' ...
If you want to do something like 'recycling', as is often done for plot
colours, but need things the same length for subsetting etc, one crude but
fairly straightforward way I will confess to using in a function is something
like
L <- max( length(x), length(y), length(z) )
x <- rep(x, length.out=L)
y <- rep(y, length.out=L)
z <- rep(z, length.out=L)
If you wanted to zero-fill to the same length, or fill with NA, that'd be
something else ...
S Ellison
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