Dear Hervé et al. I noticed that setdiff(x, y) where 'x' is an IRangesList containing an empty IRanges results in an error (see below). I would have expected the function to return the IRangesList with an empty IRanges?
Many thanks for your help. Leonard -- > x <- IRangesList(IRanges()) > y <- IRangesList(IRanges()) > > setdiff(x, y) Error in ans[] <- x : replacement has length zero > > sessionInfo() R version 3.3.0 Patched (2016-05-09 r70594) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats4 parallel stats graphics grDevices utils datasets [8] methods base other attached packages: [1] IRanges_2.8.0 S4Vectors_0.12.0 BiocGenerics_0.20.0 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] zlibbioc_1.20.0 XVector_0.14.0 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel