Thank you very much to Tony Plate for his really clear explanation, and to
Prof Ripley for his time solving this deficiency (IMHO)
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:44, Martin Maechler wrote:
>
> Thank you, Tony. This certainly was the most precise
> explanation on this thread.
>
> Everyone note however, that this has been improved (by Brian
> Ripley) in the current R-devel {which should be come R 1.8 in October}.
> There, also "$<-" assignment of data frames does check things
> and in this case will do the same replication as the [,] or [[]]
> assignments do.
> For back compatibility (with S-plus and earlier R versions), I'd
> still recommend using bracket "[" rather than "$" assignment for
> data frames.
>
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