This is Circle 8.1.13 of 'The R Inferno'.

http://www.burns-stat.com/documents/books/the-r-inferno/

Pat


On 30/10/2013 13:04, Jack Tanner wrote:
I'm not sure if this is correct behavior or not, but it seems counterintuitive
to me:

dat <- data.frame(id=1:5, let=letters[1:5])
# A. omits the first row
dat[- 1, ]

# B. unexpectedly omits ALL rows
dat[- integer(0), ]

It would be less surprising if there were no rows omitted in the (B) case.

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