Apparently He who starts from 0 needn't be called unfortunate, fortune('indexed')
baptiste On 22 November 2010 20:59, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bert Gunter <gunter.berton <at> gene.com> writes: > >> >> Eh??? Why would you want to do that?? (R isn't C). >> >> So the simple answer is: you can't. >> >> The other answer is, well of course you sort of can via, e.g. >> >> for(i in 0:9) { >> z <- myMatrix[i+1,] >> ... >> } >> >> But as Josh said, I think this falls into the class of "You are just >> asking for trouble, so don't do it." >> >> Cheers, >> Bert > > But if you still want to after all those warnings, you can ... > see the "Oarray" package, where the first letter of the package > name is a capital letter "oh" (O), not a zero (0). > > library("fortunes"); fortune("Yoda") > > There ought also to be a clever fortune() expressing the sentiment > that you may eventually find (weeks, months, or years later) that > changing the way you solve your problem to go with R's flow would > have been easier than implementing a solution that works around > the flow (examples abound: <<-, zero-based arrays, eval(parse()), > storing names of variables as character vectors and using get() > [FAQ 7.21], etc, etc, etc ...) > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.