[Rd] Field initialization order bug?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Daniel Wilhelm wrote:
>
>   
>> I believe that I may have found a bug in R. The top code sample gives
>>     
>
> You have 'merely' found a bug in your understanding.  What type did you 
> expect 'a' to be?  If you expected a list, that is not what happens in the 
> first example, and you need
>
> a <- list()
>
> or, better,
>
> a <- vector("list", 2)
>
>   
To be precise, you need

a <- vector("list", 2) ; names(a) <- c("field1", "field2")

or you end up with a 4-element list.

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