[Rd] ifelse behaviour

[ml-it-r-devel at epigenomics.com]

Hi!

I'm puzzled by the return value of ifelse

consider

x<-integer(0)
ifelse(is(x, "character"), paste(x), x)
[1] NA

whereas
if (is(x, "character")) return(paste(x)) else x
[1] integer(0)

or
x<-integer(1)
ifelse(is(x, "character"), paste(x), x)
[1] 0

work as I had anticipated. Is this correct behaviour?

Regards,

   Matthias


 >sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
C

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "datasets"  "utils"     "methods"
[7] "base"

other attached packages:
rcompletion    rcompgen
     "0.1-2"    "0.1-10"


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