[R] How to insert one element into a vector?

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
>
>> Pretty much what 'append' does.
>
> A shame then, that help.search("insert") doesn't find 'append'! I cant think 
> why anyone looking for a way of _inserting_ a value in the middle of a vector 
> would think of looking at "append"!

Yes, this should be fixed.

> Python has separate insert and append methods for vectors.

I don't think this is a good idea unless there are efficiency issues. 
You could always define one: the definition is fairly simple.
    insert<-append

 	-thomas