maybe this will make it clear x <- c(a=1, b=5) is.na(x) <- "b"
i.e. your second case is dealing with a named vector HTH, Eric On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 8:29 PM Göran Broström <goran.brost...@umu.se> wrote: > I'm confused: > > > x <- 1:2 > > is.na(x) <- 1 > > x > [1] NA 2 > > OK, but > > > x <- c("A", "B") > > is.na(x) <- "A" > > x > A > "A" "B" NA > > What happens? > > G_ran > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.