Re: [R] Cause of error assigning NULL to element of a vector

2017-05-24 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Perhaps it is worth pointing out (in case the OP thinks this is SQL) that the special value NA is used for "missing" in R. y[1] <- NA works just fine. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On May 24, 2017 11:51:41 AM PDT, Marc Schwartz wrote: > >> On May 24, 2017, at 1:30 PM, Ramn

Re: [R] Cause of error assigning NULL to element of a vector

2017-05-24 Thread Marc Schwartz
> On May 24, 2017, at 1:30 PM, Ramnik Bansal wrote: > > What is the cause of the error below ? > >> y <- 1 >> y[1] <- NULL > Error in y[1] <- NULL : replacement has length zero > > Thanks, > Ramnik Hi, > length(NULL) [1] 0 You are attempting to assign NULL, which is a zero length special ob

[R] Cause of error assigning NULL to element of a vector

2017-05-24 Thread Ramnik Bansal
What is the cause of the error below ? > y <- 1 > y[1] <- NULL Error in y[1] <- NULL : replacement has length zero Thanks, Ramnik [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https:/