What I was expecting was for the second dump was: foo <- structure(c(1,2,3,4,5,6), .Dim = c(2L, 3L))
That is, I was expecting dump to expand the 1:6 and 2:3 into the actual vectors. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/dump-not-evaluating-promises-tp2075859p2076059.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.