[R] Assignment working differently inside ifelse()

[Stuart Luppescu]

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 12:10 -0500, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> but when I use the ifelse() as above, I get this:
>            [,1]       [,2]       [,3]       [,4]
> [1,] 0.04166667 0.04166667 0.04166667 0.04166667
> [2,] 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000 0.00000000

Oh, I see. ifelse() returns a value of the same length as the test
argument. 

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This reminds me of a famous FORTRAN code snippet:  
 10 STOP STOP STOP ! IN CASE STILL SKIDDING GOTO 10
 -- Carl Witthoft (in response to the question how 
 to completely stop R       scripts after stop())  
 R-help (January 2011)