> 2) Make the vector a list. I don't know if there are side-Effects to > this, but perhaps it's just the anxiety of a Java-Programmer who isn't > used to the somewhat easy-going way R deals with classes: > class(dataf2) <- "list"
Indeed, there are _many_ side effects to this and you really should read up on the differences, but this really is a bad idea in general. To make it _very_ short, (atomic = regular) vector is a regular array while a list is an associative array. Cheers, Michael ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
