Re: [R] Indexing, and using an empty string as a name

2007-11-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
[Adding R-help back, as you did later.] On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Charilaos Skiadas wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:51 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Charilaos Skiadas wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I ran into the following, to me unexpected, behavior. I have (for >>> reasons t

Re: [R] Indexing, and using an empty string as a name

2007-11-07 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
Sorry, I meant to reply to the whole list. I can totally understand the list's policy of not defaulting to "reply to the list", but I keep forgetting it in practice (since I am in a couple of other lists with less traffic, where the default is to reply to the list. Haris Skiadas Department

Re: [R] Indexing, and using an empty string as a name

2007-11-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Charilaos Skiadas wrote: > Hello all, > > I ran into the following, to me unexpected, behavior. I have (for > reasons that don't necessarily pertain to the question at hand, hence > I won't go into them) the need/desire to use an empty string for the > name of a vector entry.

[R] Indexing, and using an empty string as a name

2007-11-06 Thread Charilaos Skiadas
Hello all, I ran into the following, to me unexpected, behavior. I have (for reasons that don't necessarily pertain to the question at hand, hence I won't go into them) the need/desire to use an empty string for the name of a vector entry. Perhaps I did not read ?"[" very carefully, but it