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

[Jari Oksanen]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:43, 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"!
> 
>   Python has separate insert and append methods for vectors.
> 
>   >>> x=[1,2,3,4,6]
>   >>> x.insert(4,5)
>   >>> x
>   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>   >>> x.append(99)
>   >>> x
>   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 99]

So has R. R's 'insert' is called 'append', and R's 'append' is called
'c'. Counter-intuitively though, and I'm happy that Peter Dalgaard
didn't know that 'append' inserts: it gives some hope to us ordinary
mortals.

cheers, jazza
-- 
Jari Oksanen <jarioksa at sun3.oulu.fi>