On Sep 25, 2012, at 04:45 , Thomas Lumley wrote: > Is there some reason why > >> (1:2)+(1:3) > [1] 2 4 4 > Warning message: > In (1:2) + (1:3) : > longer object length is not a multiple of shorter object length > > can't be made into an error? I realise it was there in S-PLUS, but > since it produces a warning there can't be many examples on CRAN or > Bioconductor using it, and I can't think of any situation where it > would be used deliberately. > > -thomas
I always thought it was retained in case you needed to add something with cyclic behavior to a time series not necessarily containing an even number of cycles. If it has been outlawed in S-PLUS for a decade, that's probably not a big need... -p -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel