[R] replacing elements of a zoo object

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 29, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Gene Leynes wrote:

> Why doesn't this work?
>
> x = zoo(1:5, as.Date('2001-01-01')+1:5)
> x[as.Date('2001-01-05')]
> x[as.Date('2001-01-05')] = 0
> x
>
>
> I think this is especially bad because it doesn't cause an error.   
> It lets
> you do something to x, but then you can't see x again to see what it  
> did.

It did exactly what I expected it to do. What was the "this" that you  
think was bad? I hope you are not asking that R ask users to confirm  
every assignment with a popup window.

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT