I fixed this in 2.9.6 and 2.8.1. It brings to light an interesting pecularity of the recycling rule.
Thanks, Michael On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Leonard Goldstein <goldstein.leon...@gene.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
