So, does that mean that a clean result is contingent on the length of
the data being a multiple of both the number of rows and columns?
However, this rule is not straightforward.
> #EXAMPLE 1
> #what I would expect
> matrix (1:12, 0, 0)
<0 x 0 matrix>
Warning message:
In matrix(1:12, 0, 0) : data
> Abby Spurdle (/əˈbi/)
> on Mon, 1 Feb 2021 19:50:32 +1300 writes:
> I'm a little surprised that the following doesn't trigger an error or a
warning.
> matrix (1:256, 8, 8)
> The help file says that the main argument is recycled, if it's too short.
> But doesn't say