[R] More trouble with empty subsets

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, David Brahm wrote:

> Here's another curious problem with empty subsets:
> R> x <- as.factor(1:10)
> R> x[] <- NA
>   Error in "[<-.factor"(*tmp*, , value = NA) :
>       Argument "i" is missing, with no default
>
> Bug, or merely different from S-Plus?

Bug already fixed in R-devel, so please tell us the version when
reporting.

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