HP == Hervé Pagès hpa...@fhcrc.org
on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:53:33 -0700 writes:
HP Hi,
HP According to its man page substring() expands (its) arguments
HP cyclically to the length of the longest _provided_ none are of
HP zero length.
HP So, as expected, I get an error
2010/6/4 Martin Maechler maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch:
HP == Hervé Pagès hpa...@fhcrc.org
on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:53:33 -0700 writes:
HP Hi,
HP According to its man page substring() expands (its) arguments
HP cyclically to the length of the longest _provided_ none are of
HP
On Jun 4, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
2010/6/4 Martin Maechler maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch:
HP == Hervé Pagès hpa...@fhcrc.org
on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:53:33 -0700 writes:
HP Hi,
HP According to its man page substring() expands (its) arguments
HP cyclically to the
According to its man page substring() expands (its) arguments
cyclically to the length of the longest _provided_ none are of
zero length.
So, as expected, I get an error here:
substring(abcd, first=2L, last=integer(0))
Error in substring(abcd, first = 2L, last = integer(0)) :
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To: Hervé Pagès
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Subject: Re: [Rd] Argument recycling in substring()
HP == Hervé Pagès hpa
Hi,
According to its man page substring() expands (its) arguments
cyclically to the length of the longest _provided_ none are of
zero length.
So, as expected, I get an error here:
substring(abcd, first=2L, last=integer(0))
Error in substring(abcd, first = 2L, last = integer(0)) :
