On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 13:16 -0700, Steve Jaffe wrote: > Why when I assign 0 to an element of an integer vector does the type change > to numeric? > Here is a particularly perplexing example: > > v <- 0:10 > > v > [1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > > class(v) > [1] "integer" > > v[1] <- 0
try this: v <- as.integer(0) Nikos > > class(v) > [1] "numeric" #!! > > > ______________________________________________ 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.
