On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Tony Plate wrote:
> The R help for cbind/rbind states:
>
> > For `cbind' (`rbind'), vectors of zero length are ignored unless
> > the result would have zero rows (columns), for S compatibility.
> > (Zero-extent matrices do not occur in S and are not ignored in
The R help for cbind/rbind states:
For `cbind' (`rbind'), vectors of zero length are ignored unless
the result would have zero rows (columns), for S compatibility.
(Zero-extent matrices do not occur in S and are not ignored in R.)
I presume this means the S language as defined in th
Dear Professor Brian Ripley,
please excuse my inability to interpret the help page correctly.
:[help(cbind)]
: For `cbind' (`rbind'), vectors of zero length are ignored unless
: the result would have zero rows (columns), for S compatibility.
I guess this implies that NULL is a zero lengt
That's as documented, on the help page. (NULL is a zero-length argument.)
There's even a reason given.
Exactly which part of the help page did you not understand?
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> R-Version: 1.7.1 (2003-06-16)
> OS: Debian/GNU Linux
>
> cbind and rbind handle NUL
