[R] vector of Vectors

[Giovanni Petris]

The code below seems to contradict your claim that vectors cannot
contain vectors.

> zz <- vector(mode = "list", length = 3)
> zz
[[1]]
NULL

[[2]]
NULL

[[3]]
NULL

Best,
Giovanni

> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:00:54 -0500 (CDT)
> From: sclarke3 at illinois.edu
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> I just learned that vectors can't contain vectors, which frankly simply confuses me (can you imagine arrays or lists in any other language not being able to contain arrays or lists?). At any rate, I need to create a data structure (size to be determined at runtime) which I will instantiate and then fill with vectors using a for loop. Clearly I'm new to the R game. Data Frame doesnt seem to be the right tool clearly.
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