On 26-05-2013, at 15:56, Martin Ivanov <tra...@abv.bg> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to get an advice on how the notorious eval(parse()) construct
> could possibly
> be avoided in the following example. I have an array x, which can have
> different number of dimensions,
> but I am only interested in extracting, say, the first element of the first
> dimension. Currently I achieve this
> in this way:
>
> eval(parse(text=paste0("x[1", paste(rep(", ", length(dim(x)) - 1),
> collapse=""), "]")))
>
> Is it possible to avoid the eval parse here? How?
I tried this
x1 <- array(runif(9),dim=c(3,3))
x2 <- array(runif(8),dim=c(2,2,2))
and then
x1[1] and x2[1] gave me what you wanted.
I don't know if it is the coRRect way to do what you want.
Berend
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