Re: [R] Question about a perceived irregularity in R syntax

2010-07-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
o: Pat Schmitz >> Cc: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R] Question about a perceived irregularity in R syntax >> >> Pat Schmitz wrote: >> >>> Both vector query's can select the values from the data.frame as >>> >>

Re: [R] Question about a perceived irregularity in R syntax

2010-07-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) wrote: -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:13 PM To: Pat Schmitz Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Question about a perceived irregularity

Re: [R] Question about a perceived irregularity in R syntax

2010-07-22 Thread Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 3:13 PM > To: Pat Schmitz > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Question about a perceived irr

Re: [R] Question about a perceived irregularity in R syntax

2010-07-22 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Pat Schmitz wrote: > Both vector query's can select the values from the data.frame as written, > however in the first form assigning a value to said selected numbers fails. > Can you explain the reason this fails? > > dat <- data.frame(index = 1:10, Value = c(1:4, NA, 6, NA, 8:10)) > > dat$Value