Well 'list' in R is pretty naturally the same as R's 'atomic vector' in scads of languages. In R the term needs special care since it's still a 'vector'.
'Degenerate dimension' is probably a helpful phrase for understanding what is happening here. Cheers, Mike On Saturday, July 4, 2015, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > On 04/07/15 03:43, Sarah Goslee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Zander, Joscha <joscha.zan...@roche.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Good day R-community, >>> >>> i just wondered if it is a bug or a feature... >>> >>> When i have a matrix "mat" with one column and i delete the last row with >>> >>> mat <- mat[-nrow(mat),] the result is a list. >> >> I have no idea how you're getting a list from a matrix (see below). Perhaps >> you mean a data frame? > > <SNIP> > > No. The Zander person just means a vector. Psigh. > > Note to the Zander person: It is important in R programming to get your concepts straight. It is also important in communicating with others to get your terminology straight. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > -- Michael Sumner Software and Database Engineer Australian Antarctic Division Hobart, Australia e-mail: mdsum...@gmail.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
