The code below seems to contradict your claim that vectors cannot contain vectors.
> zz <- vector(mode = "list", length = 3) > zz [[1]] NULL [[2]] NULL [[3]] NULL Best, Giovanni > Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:00:54 -0500 (CDT) > From: sclar...@illinois.edu > Sender: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > Precedence: list > > I just learned that vectors can't contain vectors, which frankly simply > confuses me (can you imagine arrays or lists in any other language not being > able to contain arrays or lists?). At any rate, I need to create a data > structure (size to be determined at runtime) which I will instantiate and > then fill with vectors using a for loop. Clearly I'm new to the R game. Data > Frame doesnt seem to be the right tool clearly. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Giovanni Petris <gpet...@uark.edu> Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701 Ph: (479) 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax) http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/ ______________________________________________ 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.
