[R] Error in length of vector ?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Suggest you review the help desk article on dates in
R News 4/1.   It mentions that POSIXlt objects are
lists with 9 components and other facts about date
objects in R.

On 3/2/07, Sérgio Nunes <snunes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a weird result with the length() function:
>
> >a
> [... omited ...]
> [9994] NA                    "2003-12-03 16:37:00" "2002-06-26 18:43:00"
> [9997] "2005-07-04 04:00:00" "2007-02-16 22:09:00" "2007-02-24 15:49:00"
> [10000] NA
>
> > length(LastModified)
> [1] 9
>
> > length(c(LastModified))
> [1] 9
>
> I was expecting to get "10000" as an answer.
> I'm trying to bind two vector, and I keep getting the error - "number
> of rows of result is not a multiple of vector length". Thus I tested
> length and got this value.
>
> Any hint?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sérgio Nunes
>
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