[R] Strange behaviour of paste

[Oliver]

Mike Lawrence <mike <at> thatmike.com> writes:

> 
> I suspect your example code is too long & complicated for anyone to bother
> attempting to help you.
[...]


Because of that I marked the line, where the error occured,
I thought it was easy to find out for experienced users.

But I just found the problem.

It seems the behaviour is correct,
but very unusual.

R has some peculiarities that aren't intuitive,
if you are coming from other languages.

It's power is also it's unusual-ness.

The problem was, that sample_times was not the number of
samples, but an array containing 1:(number-1).

And paste did not just add it, it makes something like
an expand.grid-like way of blowing up the data.
It seems that does also contained the arguments, that followed
the sample_times-array, not only those before, but that I have
to explore in more detail.

Yes, R is so powerful, but some behaviour is really strange
because of that.


But I can admit, that it was my limited knowldege on paste()
that brought me to the conclusion that there might be a bug.

It seems with R one has to rethink a lot of assumed behaviour
one knows from other languages. So, reading the manual more
then one time might be necessary... ;-)

BTW: Is there a way to make pdf's out of the help-pages for
a function?

I know there is a big pdf-file as reference.

But the begin of the description of the functions do not fit
to one page.

I would like to have each function beginning on a seperate page.

How to achieve this? Do you know this?
(Maybe I should start a new thread with that topic...?!)

Ciao,
   Oliver