[R] as.matrix strangeness

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Michael,
It helps to look at the "Usage" section of the help pages. There you
will see that matrix() has an ncol argument, but as.matrix() does not.

Best,
Ista

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Michael Bach <phaebz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> thanks for the hint.  The problem was that it showed me help for matrix
> when I did ?as.matrix.  I thought it was some kind of convention that
> data type conversion functions start with "as.", so now I will take more
> care in the future.
>
> With matrix() it works as expected, thanks again.
>
> Michael
>
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