> There may be cases when changing the class of the left-hand side make sense
> (such as one subclass of "Matrix" to another) but certainly not for the base
> R vector classes.
I'm not sure what you mean by "not for the base R vector classes".
Historically, the simpler class (or mode) gets coerced to the more
complex class (or mode).
x <- y <- 1:10
y [1] <- 1
(class (x) == class (y) ) #FALSE
Also, I note the behavior of multiplication of a matrix with a Matrix.
library (Matrix)
m <- matrix (1:16, 4, 4)
M <- Matrix (1:16, 4, 4)
as.vector (class (m * M) ) #dgeMatrix
as.vector (class (M * m) ) #dgeMatrix
as.vector (class (m %*% M) ) #dgeMatrix
as.vector (class (M %*% m) ) #dgeMatrix
So, here also, the output is a Matrix, regardless of the type of
multiplication, or the order of the operands.
But the following surprised me:
k <- m
mode (k) <- "complex"
k %*% M
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