[R] dim vs length for vectors
Thomas Lumley
tlumley at u.washington.edu
Fri Jan 21 19:24:49 CET 2005
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Olivia Lau wrote:
> What I was proposing doesn't require a lot of programming. Just whenever you
> call dim(), it does length() if the object is a vector and returns it in the
> format:
>
> R> a <- 1:12
> R> dim(a)
> [1] 12
>
One problem is that there is code using is.null(dim(x)) to distinguish
vectors from matrices. This code would break.
-thomas
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