> Why does R need the concept of "Vector"? In my opinion, it is a useless and
> confusing concept. A vector is simply a special case of a matrix whose row
> or column number is equal to 1. When I take submatrix from one matrix and
> if row or column number is 1, R will automatically convert it into a vector.
> It is very straightforward that a submatrix of a matrix should be a matrix.
> In each time, I have to use as.matrix() to convert the vector back to
> matrix. It is very annoying!
Good thing there's a way to get around this then:
R> m <- matrix(1:20, 4, 5)
R> m
[,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5]
[1,] 1 5 9 13 17
[2,] 2 6 10 14 18
[3,] 3 7 11 15 19
[4,] 4 8 12 16 20
R> m[,1]
[1] 1 2 3 4
R> m[,1,drop=FALSE]
[,1]
[1,] 1
[2,] 2
[3,] 3
[4,] 4
R> is.matrix(m[,1,drop=FALSE])
[1] TRUE
-steve
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Steve Lianoglou
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| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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