[Rd] is.na<- problem

[(Ted Harding)]

On 19-Oct-05 Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> In the following the first element of xx should have
> been set to 0 but remains NA.  Any comments?
> 
>> xx <- c(NA,1)
>> is.na(xx) <- 0
>> xx
> [1] NA  1
>> R.version.string # Windows XP
> [1] "R version 2.2.0, 2005-09-20"

I wonder, has it ever worked? I get the same as you on

R.version.string #Linux
[1] "R version 1.6.2, 2003-01-10"

R.version.string #Linux
[1] "R version 1.8.0, 2003-10-08"

R.version.string #Linux
[1] "R version 2.1.0, 2005-04-08"

with the exception of

R.version.string #Linux
[1] "R version 1.2.3, 2001-04-26"

which does know about is.na()<- at all.


Hmmm
Ted.






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