Another way:

x <- replace(x, length(x), 0)

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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:
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> x <- 1:10
> x
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> x[length(x)] <- 0
> x
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> 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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