[R] 2D array of strings

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 28, 2009, at 4:24 PM, milton ruser wrote:

> Hi Francesco,
>
> Be carefull with create a object named str, because you crash str()
> function. I don't know if it have implications on any package or  
> functions.

Agree that is not a good idea, but don't agree with why. The action of  
creating an object with the same name will not generally "crash the  
function" but will often crash the wetware.

-- 
David.

>
> bests
>
> milton
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Francesco Napolitano
> <franapoli at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Sorry for the dumb question, but I couldn't figure this out myself.
>>
>> Consider the following:
>>
>>> str <- c("abc","def")
>>> array(str, c(2,1))
>>    [,1]
>> [1,] "abc"
>> [2,] "def"
>>
>> How can i obtain the outcome of the second instruction without
>> specifying the number of rows?
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Francesco.
>>
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