On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 15:13:54 -0500 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP> > > Just to build the mountain a little higher, I would use > > subset(p, seq_along(p) <= 20) > > You should generally avoid expressions like "1:length(p)", because > they don't do what you would expect in the unusual case that p is > length 0. > > Even in cases where you know p is not length 0, it's a good habit to > get into so that in the future you don't get surprised. Aaarrrggghhh. That was a dumb-dumb on my part. As Burns said to Ripley (fortunes::fortune(26)), good catch. Thanks. cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Stats. Dep't. phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 89622 Home phone: +64-9-480-4619 ______________________________________________ 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.
