[R] Named components in a list

[William Dunlap]

R may surprise you here, but it is self-consistent.
What would you expect from the following?
  > x <- c(one=1,two=2,3,four=4)
  > x
   one  two      four
     1    2    3    4
  > x[c("two", "five")] <- c(twentytwo=22, fiftyfive=55)
  > x
    one  two      four five
      1   22    3    4   55
'x[c(2,5)] <- ...' must act the same.

Bill Dunlap
Spotfire, TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of JulioSergio
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:51 AM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Named components in a list
> 
> Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> 
> > You probably want:
> > L["NewName"] <- "something"
> > or one of the many potential variants.
> >
> 
> Thanks, Sara,
> That works!
> However, following the idea that the syntactic notation L[i] means
> a sublist of L, again the syntactic notation
> 
> L[i] <- list(Name=Value)
> 
> should mean that the sublist is now assigned the list with the a unique named
> element. So I insist this is either a bug or an inconsistency of the language.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Sergio.
> 
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