[R] Extending a vector to length n

[Gabor Grothendieck]

This may not be everything you would like but perhaps its sufficient:

> structure("length<-"(a, 2), class = class(a))
[1] "2008-01-01" NA

Your second example looks ok as is.  Can't tell what you don't
like about it.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> In general, how can I increase a vector of length m (< n) to length n
> by padding it with m - n missing values, without losing attributes?
> The two approaches I've tried, using length<- and adding missings with
> c, do not work in general:
>
>> a <- as.Date("2008-01-01")
>> c(a, NA)
> [1] "2008-01-01" NA
>> length(a) <- 2
>> a
> [1] 13879    NA
>
>
>> b <- factor("a")
>> c(b, NA)
> [1]  1 NA
>> length(b) <- 2
>> b
> [1] a    <NA>
> Levels: a
>
> Hadley
>
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