Scott Romans wrote: > If we have a function that returns 2 or more values (such as dim as > applied to a matrix), can we assign these 2 or more values to an equal > number of differently named variables in one line? For example, is > there any way to do something like this: > > [NumberRows NumberColumns] <- dim(MatrixA)
In that case R returns an object (a vector) with two values where the first is the number of rows and the second is the number of columns. Almost everything in R are objects. So: > d <- dim(attitude) > rows <- d[1] > rows [1] 30 Tom ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.