Why when I assign 0 to an element of an integer vector does the type change to numeric? Here is a particularly perplexing example: > v <- 0:10 > v [1] 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > class(v) [1] "integer" > v[1] <- 0 > class(v) [1] "numeric" #!! >
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