> but then, it seems people want to perpetuate the
> claim of R to be slow
More charitably, I think that the thinking may have been that since x[[i]]
gives you one element of x,
they should use x[[i]]<-value, for scalar i, to stick in one element.
Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com
> Martin Maechler
> on Sat, 22 Feb 2020 20:20:49 +0100 writes:
> William Dunlap
> on Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:05:49 -0800 writes:
>> If we change the behavior NULL--[[--assignment from
>> `[[<-`(NULL, 1, "a" ) # gives "a" (*not* a list)
>> to
>>
