Oleg Sklyar wrote: > Dear developers: > > I have just came across an (unexpected to me) behaviour of lists when > assigning NULLs to list elements. I understand that a NULL is a valid R > object, thus assigning a NULL to a list element should yield exactly the > same result as assigning any other object. So I was surprised when > assigning a NULL in fact removed the element from the list. Is this an > intended behaviour? If so, does anybody know where is it documented and > what is a good way around?
This topic is discussed in the R FAQ, in section 7.1 "How can I set components of a list to NULL?" It also shows up in section 3.3.3, in the context of incompatibilities with S. - Steve ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
