[R] Error in FUN(newX[, i], ...) : `x' must be atomic

[Peter Dalgaard]

Simon Blomberg <blomsp at ozemail.com.au> writes:

> Actually, atoms are originally a Lisp concept. Objects are either atoms or 
> not. Atoms are data types that cannot be taken apart, such as numbers or 
> symbols. Lists and vectors (of length > 1) are examples of  non-atomic data 
> types. Did you pass a vector to FUN?

Actually, vectors ARE atomic in R, so your definition is somewhat off
target. 

>  is.atomic(rnorm(5))
[1] TRUE

In the extreme, the only true atom is the bit, everything else can be
taken apart - doubles into (sign,exponent,mantissa) etc. So languages
*define* their own atoms, as objects that are not composed of other
objects in the language. (And even that is a partial lie for R,
because atoms can have attributes. Atomicity is purely based on the
type of an object. The help page has a list of the atomic types.)

> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> At 12:22 PM 27/07/2005, Srinivas Iyyer wrote:
> >Hello Group,
> >  What is the meaning of the error.  is there any place
> >to look for this. I guess 'atomic' seems to be OOP
> >related concept.
> >
> >thank you
> >srini
> >
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