Gabe, I agree that If by standard you mean commonly used/understood, though, I doubt > most R users would understand a list to be a vector. I think most people > think of atomic vectors exclusively when they hear "vector" unless they've > very specifically been trained not to do so.
However, a common way to create lists is by a construct like 'vector("list", n)'. Also, 'is.vector' reports TRUE for lists (but FALSE for many other vectors). This causes quite a bit of confusion, unless everyone understands the different 'vector' concepts, embedded in R. Cheers, Ott [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel