Your definition of "value" is inappropriately limited. A data frame is a value.
It is not a numeric value, but it is a value. See 3.1.3 in the R Language
Definition document.
Likewise, an atomic vector is a value. All of the elements of the vector
together are in fact a value. Not just the indi
"A variable in R can refer to many things, ..." I agree.
"It absolutely _can_ refer to a list, ..." I partly agree. In R as a
programming language I agree. In R as a statistical analysis tool then only
partly. Typically one would need to limit the list so each variable would be of
the same lengt
A variable in R can refer to many things, but it cannot be an element of a
vector. It absolutely _can_ refer to a list, a list of lists, a function, an
environment, and any of the various kinds of atomic vectors that you seem to
think of as variables. (R does _not_ name individual elements of ve
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