When in doubt, check the doc first. In this case, ?ifelse says in no fewer
than three places why what you described is intended and not a bug.
Andy
From: Joerg van den Hoff
>
> is the behaviour
>
> val <- ifelse(TRUE, numeric(0), 123)
> val #NA
>
> intended or is it a bug, i.e. should an empty object be returned as
> might be expected(also in comparsion to what an explicit
> val <- {if(TRUE) numeric(0) else 123} yields)?
>
> thanks,
>
> joerg
>
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