[R] why is 0 not an integer?

[jim holtman]

try

> x <- 0
> class(x)
[1] "numeric"
> x <- 0L
> class(x)
[1] "integer"
>

You have to explicitly indicate that you want integer.



On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Steve Jaffe<sjaffe at riskspan.com> wrote:
>
> Why when I assign 0 to an element of an integer vector does the type change
> to numeric?
> Here is a particularly perplexing example:
>> v <- 0:10
>> v
>  [1]  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
>> class(v)
> [1] "integer"
>> v[1] <- 0
>> class(v)
> [1] "numeric"  #!!
>>
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