[Rd] vector(NA, 3) (PR#1541)

pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca
Sat, 11 May 2002 03:13:13 +0200 (MET DST)


I don't seem to be able to initialize a vector of NAs. I hope this is a
bug and not a new feature (I realize I have not paid much attention to a
lot of recent discussion about NA):

platform sparc-sun-solaris2.6
arch     sparc               
os       solaris2.6          
system   sparc, solaris2.6   
status                       
major    1                   
minor    5.0                 
year     2002                
month    04                  
day      29                  
language R                   
> 
> vector(NA, 3)
Error in vector(NA, 3) : vector: cannot make a vector of mode "NA".
> matrix(NA,2,2)
     [,1] [,2]
[1,]   NA   NA
[2,]   NA   NA

Paul Gilbert

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