[R] Replace last element in a vector - elegant solution?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hi

I have to replace the last element of a vector with 0, but the length of
x is not known at coding time. So I do the following:

x <- 1:10
x

x[length(x)] <- 0
x

it is working nicely, but I am wondering: is there a more elegant
solution( like tail(x, 1) <- 0 , which does not work)?

Thanks,

Rainer
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