From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Jul 19 08:18:33 1999
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:18:33 +0100 (BST)
Subject: vector()
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Venables, Bill (CMIS, Cleveland) wrote:

> You might think about using structure()
> 
> fred <- structure(vector("list", length(happy)), names = names(happy))
> 
> and in fact you can add as many attributes as you like.  This seems a better
> plan than tweaking vector() (where do you stop?) and maintains consistency
> with S3 at this low level.
> 
> It must be said, though, this natural and innocent looking idiom that I once
> used quite a lot in S3 code had nasty consequences in going from S3 to S4,
> (as BDR frequently reminds me!)

(When used for setting classes instead of class<-, that is.)


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