[Rd] Error: subscript out of bounds (PR#9305)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

Why do you consider this to be a bug: you are using matrix indexing, and 
there is no element c(1,3) of x?

This form of indexing is covered in 'An Introduction to R'.


On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, salking at verizon.net wrote:

> Full_Name: Steven King
> Version: 1.16

There is no such version of R.

> OS: OSX vesion 10.4.8
> Submission from: (NULL) (71.126.161.149)
>
>
>
> Setting a matrix is a function - the failure occurs only on 2 X 2 matrices.
>
> x<-matrix(1:4,nrow=2)
>> x
>     [,1] [,2]
> [1,]    1    3
> [2,]    2    4
>> x[x]<-2
> Error: subscript out of bounds

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