[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Full_Name: Simeon Bird > Version: 2.5.1 > OS: Linux > Submission from: (NULL) (131.111.200.200) > > > In the manual "The R Language Definition", section 3.3.2 reads: > > "3.3.2 Propagation of names > > propagation of names (first one wins, I think - also if it has no names?? —– > first one *with names* wins, recycling causes shortest to lose names)" > > I'm not really sure what this is talking about. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > Several bits of the document have that kind of "proto-text" style and need to be rephrased in ordinary English.
What that particular paragraph was meant to describe is this: > c(A=1)+c(b=2) A 3 > c(A=1)+c(b=2,c=3) b c 3 4 > c(1)+c(b=2) b 3 -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
