Warning does seem sensible (and there is already a test for length > 0),
so I've added one.
Generally R has followed the Unix philosophy of not chatting and trying to
make sense of the user's inputs (although it has multiple authors, and
some advocate more of what others see as nannying). We
Biobase has multiassign.
Kasper
On Jul 13, 2008, at 2:39 AM, Patrick Burns wrote:
'assign' does not give a warning if 'x' has length
greater than 1 -- it just uses the first element:
assign(c('a1', 'a2'), 1:2)
One way of thinking about this is that people using
'assign' get what they deserve
'assign' does not give a warning if 'x' has length
greater than 1 -- it just uses the first element:
assign(c('a1', 'a2'), 1:2)
One way of thinking about this is that people using
'assign' get what they deserve. The other is that it is
used seldom enough that adding a warning isn't going
to slo
